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1 day ago · After repeated vetoes of such laws, the 1917 Immigration Act, sponsored by Congressman John Lawson Burnett, finally succeeded in imposing a literacy test on immigrants to the U.S. It required immigrants over the age of 16 to be able to read 30-40 words in any language.
5 days ago · The Emergency Quota Act was passed in 1921, followed by the Immigration Act of 1924, which supplanted earlier acts to effectively ban all immigration from Asia and set quotas for the Eastern Hemisphere so that no more than 2% of nationalities, as represented in the 1890 census, were allowed to immigrate to America.
3 days ago · 00:00. 00:00. This week marks the 100th anniversary of the infamous U.S. immigration law that ultimately made it extremely difficult for Jewish refugees to find haven in America. The way that ...
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4 days ago · The new immigrants’ ethnic, cultural, and religious differences from both earlier immigrants and the native-born population led to widespread assertions that they were unfit for either labor or American citizenship. A growing chorus of voices sought legislative restrictions on immigration.
4 days ago · 8,000+ historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that document voluntary immigration to the U.S., from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression. TIP: Use the Search and Browse menus at the top of the page to access items.
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4 days ago · Although frequently amended, the Act still forms the basic structure of immigration law in the United States. Prior to enactment of the INA, immigration law was governed by a variety of statutes but they were not consolidated in one location.
5 days ago · For example, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 barred all immigration from China, while the 1917 Immigration Act expanded the ban to much of Asia and imposed a literacy test on all new immigrants. Not all Americans opposed non-white immigration, however.
