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APUSH Chapters 38 & 39 Review. Get a hint. Robert Kennedy. Click the card to flip 👆. Was Attorney General under JFK; wanted to focus on recasting the FBI and fighting organized crime; shot to death by an Arab immigrant in the 1968 election, who was against his pro-Israel stand. Click the card to flip 👆. 1 / 45.
APUSH 9.5-9.6 Vocab. Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (MIG) Click the card to flip 👆. The Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965 (also known as the Hart-Celler Act or the INS Act of 1965) abolished the national-origin quotas that had been in place in the United States since the Immigration Act of 1924. Click the card to flip ...
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Source. AN ACT. To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 201 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 176; 8 U.S.C. 1151) be amended to read as follows:
The 1965 Immigration & Nationality Act ended racist quotas of previous eras and opened the gates to a more colorful and diverse country. These changing demographics not only transformed the face of America, it also contributed to new stereotypes of a historically excluded and maligned population: Asian immigrants.
The 1965 act also gave preference to educated immigrants who possessed specialized job skills (e.g., doctors, chemists), immigrants who already had relatives in the United States, and refugees. The Immigration Act of 1990 lifted restrictions against homosexual immigrants, who had been classified among “sexual deviants” in the 1965 ...
Johnson’s Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. : This was a law passed by President Lyndon B. Johnson that abolished the national-origins quota system that had been in place in the United States since the 1920s. The act resulted in a significant increase in immigration, particularly from Asia and Latin America.
28. As a result of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, a. fewer Asians came to the U.S. b. the number of immigrants entering the country was reduced. c. the racial and ethnic makeup of the country was unchanged. d. sources of immigration tilted to Eastern Europe. e. sources of immigration shifted to Latin America and Asia.
