WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
RISE OF NATIVISM
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Question
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US passed a law limiting immigration
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People didn’t want to come to the US anymore
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There was a war in the US
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Countries wouldn’t allow citizens to leave for the US
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Detailed explanation-1: -In all of its parts, the most basic purpose of the 1924 Immigration Act was to preserve the ideal of U.S. homogeneity.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the 1920s, Congress passed a series of immigration quotas. The quotas were applied on a country-by-country basis and therefore restricted immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe more than immigration from Northern and Western Europe.
Detailed explanation-3: -Fears of increased immigration after the end of World War I and the spread of radicalism propelled Congress to enact this “emergency” measure imposing drastic quantitative caps on immigration.
Detailed explanation-4: -Thus, as the number of immigrants rose in the 1880s and economic conditions in some areas worsened, Congress began to pass immigration legislation. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and Alien Contract Labor laws of 1885 and 1887 prohibited certain laborers from immigrating to the United States.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the Asian Exclusion Act and National Origins Act ( Pub. L. 68–139, 43 Stat. 153, enacted May 26, 1924), was a United States federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe.