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1924. To further limit immigration, this law established extended "national origins" quotas, a highly restrictive and quantitatively discriminatory system. The quota system would remain the primary means of determining immigrants' admissibility to the United States until 1965.
The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the Asian Exclusion Act and National Origins Act (Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 68–139, 43 Stat. 153, enacted May 26, 1924), was a federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe.
- May 26, 1924
- Johnson-Reed Act
- An Act to limit the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States, and for other purposes.
- the 68th United States Congress
It made permanent strict quotas— defined as “two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census”—in order to favor immigrants from...
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The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census.
Mar 22, 2024 · The 1924 Act established a quota for the total number of immigrants allowed per annum at 165,000— less than 20 percent of the pre-World War I average— and based ceilings on the numbers of immigrants from particular nations on the percentage of that nationality as recorded in the 1890 census.
With the 1924 Act, the annual quota for Italians was set at less than 4,000. This table shows the annual immigration quotas under the 1924 Immigration Act. Northwest Europe and Scandinavia. Eastern and Southern Europe. Other Countries.
The quota for Italian immigrants under the 1924 law was 3,845. In the period from 1900 through 1910, an average of 200,000 Italians had emigrated to the United States each year. The 1924 Act was not the first effort to limit immigration.