The Immigration Restriction Act of 1921 limited the number of immigrants to the US to 3% of the population of their nationality already in the United States in 1910. This reduced the number of immigrants to America to less than a quarter of what it was before
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Immigration Act of 1918 — Suspected radicals arrested during the Palmer Raids awaiting deportation hearings Ellis Island, January 1920 The United States Immigration Act of 1918 (ch. 186, 40 Stat. 1012) was enacted on October 16, 1918.[1] It is also known as the… … Wikipedia
Dillingham Commission — The United States Immigration Commission was a special congressional committee formed in February 1907 by the United States Congress, which was then under intense pressure from various nativist groups, to study the origins and consequences of… … Wikipedia
Emergency Quota Act — The Emergency Quota Act, also known as the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921, the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, the Per Centum Law, and the Johnson Quota Act (ch. 8, 42 Stat. 5 of May 19, 1921) restricted immigration into the… … Wikipedia
Anarchist Exclusion Act — The Anarchist Exclusion Act refers to two different acts passed by the United States Congress intended to keep immigrants that subscribed to anarchist ideas from entering the country.The 1901 actThe first Anarchist Exclusion Act (officially… … Wikipedia
Anarchist Exclusion Act — (deutsch etwa: Anarchistenausschlussgesetz) bezieht sich auf zwei Gesetze, die ab 1901–1918 vom United States Congress verabschiedet wurden, um Personen, die anarchistische Ideen vertraten, an der Einreise in die USA zu hindern.… … Deutsch Wikipedia
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National Origins Formula — The National Origins Formula was an American system of immigration quotas, between 1921 and 1965, which restricted immigration on the basis of existing proportions of the population. The goal was to maintain the existing ethnic composition of the … Wikipedia
Henry Cabot Lodge — This article is about Henry Cabot Lodge (1850 1924), a U.S. politician in the early twentieth century. : For his grandson, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902 1985), a U.S. politician in the mid twentieth century, see Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.. Infobox… … Wikipedia
Alaska — This article is about the U.S. state of Alaska. For other uses, see Alaska (disambiguation). Alaskan redirects here. For other uses, see Alaskan (disambiguation). State of Alaska … Wikipedia
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