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Feb 16, 2021 · The Immigration Act of 1917 drastically reduced U.S. immigration by expanding the prohibitions of the Chinese exclusion laws of the late 1800s. The law created an “Asiatic barred zone” provision, which prohibited immigration from British India, most of Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and the Middle East.
- Robert Longley
The Immigration Act of 1917 (also known as the Literacy Act or the Burnett Act [1] 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.
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.
Dec 21, 2018 · The Immigration Act of 1917 establishes a literacy requirement for immigrants entering the country and halts immigration from most Asian countries.
- Missy Sullivan
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Sep 1, 2022 · The 1917 Immigration Act paved the way for a rapid succession of immigration laws that tightened the nation's borders against immigrants perceived as belonging to inferior races, yet it failed to reduce immigration as drastically as supporters of immigration restriction had hoped.
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...
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Jun 10, 2019 · In response, Congress passed increasingly restrictive immigration legislation. The Immigration Act of 1917, the most restrictive immigration legislation to date, was passed by a significant majority, even overriding a veto from President Woodrow Wilson. The law excluded immigrants who were (1) illiterate and over the age of sixteen, (2 ...
