Question

e Immigration Act of 1924 targeted people born in __________ for immigration restrictions.

Asia

Europe

South America

any part of the world

Answer 1

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. It completely excluded immigrants from Asia.

Answer 2

The Immigration Act of 1924was a United States federal law that prevented immigration from Asia, set quotas on the number of immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere, and provided funding and an enforcement mechanism to carry out the longstanding ban on other immigrants.

Immigration Act of 1924

Great Seal of the United States

Nicknames

Johnson-Reed Act

Enacted by

the 68th United States Congress

Effective

May 26, 1924

Legislative history

Signed into law by President Calvin Coolidge on May 24, 1924

The 1924 act supplanted earlier acts to effectively ban all immigration from Asiaand set a total immigration quota of 165,000 for countries outside the Western Hemisphere, an 80% reduction from the pre-World War I average Quotas for specific countries were based on 2% of the U.S. population from that country as recorded in 1890.As a result, populations poorly represented in 1890 were prevented from immigrating in proportionate numbers—*especially affecting Italians, Jews, Greeks, Poles, and Slavs*. According to the U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian, the purpose of the act was "to preserve the ideal of U.S. homogeneity."Congressional opposition was minimal.

A key element of the act was its provisions for enforcement. The act provided funding and legal instructions to courts of deportation for immigrants whose national quotas were exceeded. The act was revised in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 and replaced by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.