English, 02.02.2021 17:40 mat1413

Read the excerpt from "How the Immigrants Who Came to Ellis Island in 1907 Compare to Arrivals Today": The U. S. tried to reduce this type of immigration with the 1924 Immigration Act, which introduced numerical caps or quotas based on country of origin. These quotas gave enormous preference to people from northern and western Europe
over those from southern and eastern parts of the continent. But despite intense fears that the latter type of immigrants could never really be American, they and their
descendants became an important part of the country.
What information is NOT explicitly stated in the excerpt?
The United States set quotas on immigrants from Europe.
The 1924 Immigration Act tried to limit immigration into the United States.
European immigrants became an important part of American culture.
The 1924 Immigration Act helped immigrants integrate into the United States.

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