Immigration: Laws & Policies Read; The First World War slowed immigration to the U. S. but, after the armistice, mas
immigration resumed, reaching 805,000 in 1921. Various events after World War 1, such
recession of 1920 to 1921, the First Red Scare, the resurgence of the Ku Klux Kan, the fi
surrounding the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, and organized opposition to immigration in
the "clash of cultures." The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 limited immigration to 3% oft
number of immigrants of any particular country that had been living in the United State
1910. Three years later, Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1924. This lan restricte
arrivals to just 2% of foreign-born residents according to the Census of 1890, when the
of "new" immigrants was relatively small. As a result, immigration laws all but eliminat
flow of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, and it effectively excluded all
immigration from most of Asia until WWII.
1. Why did immigration laws shift in the 1920s?
Immigration and the Quota Laws