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  1. 6 days ago · On May 15, 1924, Congress passed the Johnson-Reed Act, which would constrain immigration into the United States to preserve, in Smith’s words, America’s “pure, unadulterated Anglo-Saxon ...

  2. 2 days ago · 100 years after the Immigration Act of 1924, historians discussed its legacy, how limits on immigration became a federal issue, and how it continues to affect different groups today. This program ...

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  4. 2 days ago · The Immigration Act of 1924 allowed only 150,000 immigrants to the United States per year and set firm quotas for each country, and in the midst of the Great Depression there was little popular support for revisions to the law that would have allowed for a more liberal immigration policy.

  5. 4 days ago · At the core of the 1924 law was the “quota system”, which limited the number of immigrants to the United States each year to a certain number. For each nationality, this number was 2% of the number of people of that national background who had been recored as present in the United States in the census of 1890.

  6. 4 days ago · The 1924 Immigration Act reduced the national quotas put in place by the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 from 3 percent based on the foreign-born population present in the US in 1910 to 2 percent, and ...

  7. 1 day ago · The Communist takeover of Russia in 1917 intensified anti-immigration sentiment in the United States and spurred the introduction of the Emergency Quota Act in Congress. It stipulated that the annual number of immigrants admitted from any country could not exceed 3% of the number of immigrants living in the U.S. at the time of the 1910 national ...

  8. 5 days ago · The better known is the Immigration Act of 1924 (also known as the Johnson-Reed Act or the National Quotas Act), which drastically reduced U.S. immigration levels, especially from Southern and ...