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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.
Temporary measures establishing quota limits per country based on the makeup of the foreign-born population residing in the U.S. were introduced in 1921 (Emergency Quota Act) and 1924 (Immigration Act of 1924); these were replaced by a permanent quota system based on each nationality's share of the total U.S. population as of 1920, which took effect on July 1, 1929 and governed American ...
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 affirmed the national origins quota system of 1924 and limited total annual immigration to one sixth of one percent of the population of the continental United States in 1920, or 175,455. It exempted the spouses and children of U.S. citizens and people born in the Western Hemisphere from the quota.
It's no accident that the architect of 1924's immigration restriction act was from Washington State. ... and innovating a system of emergency quotas on immigration in 1921. But with his 1924 law ...
The gates to New World were slammed shut, or nearly so, when Congress passed the U.S. Immigration Act of 1924. The law set quotas based on national origin, which reduced immigration from eastern ...
Immigration Act of 1918: Expanded on the provisions of the Anarchist Exclusion Act. Pub. L. 65–221: 1920 Passport Act of 1920: Pub. L. 66–238: 1921 Emergency Quota Act: Limited the number of immigrants a year from any country to 3% of those already in the US from that country as per the 1910 census, establishing the National Origins Formula.
The 1921 quota system was extended temporarily by a more restrictive formula assigning quotas based on 2 percent of the number of foreign-born in the 1890 census while a more complex quota plan, the National Origins Formula, was computed to replace this "emergency" system under the provisions of the Immigration Act of 1924 (Johnson-Reed Act ...
Immigration could allow the U.S. to avoid population collapse. ... Then came the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the racist quotas of the Immigration Act of 1924, and the internment of Japanese ...