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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.
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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.
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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.
Jul 17, 2015 · Immigration Act of 1917. In 1917, a new piece of immigration legislation was passed by Congress that expanded the list of reasons why individuals could be excluded from entry to the United States, a literacy test was added, and what became known as the Asiatic Barred Zone was created.
Feb 5, 2024 · On February 5th, 1917, Congress passed an immigration act that would have a significant impact on persons wishing to settle in the United States. Required was a literacy test for immigrants, while the law also prohibited entry by laborers from Asia -- with exceptions for countries, such as the Philippines that already had established relations.
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...
Jun 25, 2018 · The law built on earlier restrictive measures, including the literacy tests and the Asiatic Barred Zone of the Immigration Act of 1917 and the “emergency quotas” of the Immigration Act of 1921. Over time, the 1924 act made a tremendous impact on the nation’s urban areas because of the concentration of immigrants there.
