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Feb 16, 2021 · The Immigration Act of 1917 banned all immigration to the United States from British India, most of Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and the Middle East. The Act was spurred by the isolationist movement seeking to prevent the United States from becoming involved in World War I.
- Robert Longley
The Immigration Act of 1917 (also known as the Literacy Act or the Burnett Act and less often as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act) was a United States Act that aimed to restrict immigration by imposing literacy tests on immigrants, creating new categories of inadmissible persons, and barring immigration from the Asia-Pacific zone.
Dec 21, 2018 · The Immigration Act of 1917 establishes a literacy requirement for immigrants entering the country and halts immigration from most Asian countries. May 1924: The Immigration Act of...
- Missy Sullivan
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Feb 3, 2017 · A hundred years ago this month, for instance, Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917, effectively banning Asian, Mexican and Mediterranean people from entering the United States, along with the poor, political radicals and those with mental or physical disabilities.
Mar 5, 2010 · Immediate Impact. Continuing Source of Debate. Immigration in the 21st Century. The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, also known as the Hart-Celler Act, abolished an earlier quota...
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Although this law is best known for its creation of a “barred zone” extending from the Middle East to Southeast Asia from which no persons were allowed to enter the United States, its main restriction consisted of a literacy test intended to reduce European immigration.
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Feb 5, 2017 · The Immigration Act of 1917, also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, prohibited immigration from any country that was on or adjacent to Asia but was "not owned by the U.S.," according to a...
