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What did
the 1921 Emergency Quota Act do?
The
1921 Emergency Quota Act
established a temporary quota system by which only 3 per cent
of the total population of any ethnic group already in the USA in
1910, could be admitted to the United States.
What did
the National Origins Act of 1924 do?
The National
Origins Act of 1924 established a permanent quota system by
which only 2 per cent of the total population of any ethnic group
already in the USA in 1890, could be admitted to the United States.
Why was
the National Origins Act of 1924 passed?
There are many reasons
why the National Origins Act of 1924 was passed and these are
detailed as follows:
Reason 1: The
government wanted to make immigration restriction a
permanent policy and tighten the 1921 quota formula
Reason 2: The
passage of the law ensured preference was given to
"Old Immigrants" from North-Western Europe
Reason 3: The
act was in response to public opinion following the 1919
recession and high unemployment, civil
unrest and the
Red Scare and the massive levels of immigrants
Reason 4: The
Dillingham
Commission Report discriminated between
Old and
New Immigration and concluded that the "New Immigrants"
from South-Eastern Europe were "inferior, uneducated and posed a serious threat to American
society" and recommended that immigration to America by "New
Immigrants" should be
restricted.
Reason 5: The
government wanted to limit and control immigration.
National Origins Act of 1924
- "Old Immigrants" and "New Immigrants"
The European countries
of origin Are defined as follows:
● Definition: "Old
Immigrants" were from Anglo-Saxon or Nordic races who came
from the North Western areas of Europe such as Britain,
Ireland, Scotland, Holland, Germany, France and Scandinavia
● Definition: "New
Immigrants" were from Slovak and Jewish races who came from
South eastern European countries such as
such as Italy, Greece, Russia, Slovakia, Hungary, Russia, Poland,
Croatia, Lithuania and Serbia
Effects of US Immigration
Laws
By passing of the 1921 Emergency Quota Act admission
to the United States of America was determined by
ethnic identity and national origin. The 1924
National Origins Act made immigration restriction a
permanent US government policy and gave preference
to the "Old Immigrants". The picture shows the
relative proportions of immigrants from Northwestern
Europe (red) and Southern and Eastern Europe (blue)
in the decades before, and after, the immigration
restriction legislation.
● 1881-1890
shows the majority of immigrants to the US were
the "Old Immigrants" from North-Western Europe
● From
1891-1900 the immigration trend began to change,
there were more "New Immigrants" from
South-Eastern Europe
● From
1901-1910 the US welcomed immigrants as a source
of cheap labor due to the Industrialization of
America - the number of "New Immigrants" from
far outnumbered the "Old Immigrants". The trend
continued from 1911-1920
● Following
the Dillingham Commission Report, the impact of
WW1 and the Red Scare the immigration trend was
completely reversed.
What was
the Purpose of the National Origins Act of 1924?
The purpose and main
objective of the National Origins Act of 1924 was:
● To increase the quotas
allotted to immigrants from North-Western Europe
● The existing 1921
quota calculation was lowered from 3% to 2% percent of the
foreign born population
●
The introduce a new percentage quota formula using the
population of the foreign-born of each nationality in the US
as recorded in the 1890 census. (the 1921 law had used the
1910 census figures)
● To allow a larger
number of quotas to be allotted to the "Old Immigrants"
National Origins Act of 1924
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Impact
The impact of the
National Origins Act of 1924 was as follows:
● The
revised quota formula reduced total immigration from 357,803
in 1924, to 164,667 in 1925
● The impact of the law
varied widely by country. For instance, immigration from
Great Britain fell by 19% whereas immigration from Italy
fell by more than 90%
● The quotas remained in
place, with a few minor alterations until the Immigration
and Nationality Act of 1965
● The
National Origins Act of 1924
exempted people from the Western Hemisphere from the quota
system and a record number of Mexican immigrants entered the
United States
National Origins Act of 1924
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1929 Amendments
The second part of the
act became effective in 1929 replacing the 1924 quotas
with a 150,000 immigration limit per year. The quota percentage
allotted to each country of origin was based on the 1920 US
census. The total immigration quota of 150,000 immigrants would
therefore be divided between countries in proportion to the
ancestry of the 1920 population (with a minimum quota of 100).
Facts
about
National Origins Act of
1924 for kids
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