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Description
Mind Map by Lucy Brown, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Lucy Brown
about 8 years ago
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Immigration
- Why increase?
- US economic opportunities
- Escape
poverty/persecution
- US economic opportunities
- Why restrictions?
- WWI
- Xenophobia of radicals/spreading
of left-wing ideologies
- More immigrants means
higher unemployment
- Xenophobia of radicals/spreading
of left-wing ideologies
- KKK/WASPs
influence
- Red Scare
- Fear of Communist views
- Sacco & Vanzetti
provoked fears
- Fear of Communist views
- WWI
- Restrictions
- 1917 Literacy Test
- 1921 Emergency Quota Act -
3% of nationality as of 1910
census
- (Initially a temporary measure)
- (Initially a temporary measure)
- 1924 Johnson-Reed
Immigration Act -
2% of nationality
- 1929 National Origins
Act - annual cap 150,000
- 1930 WSC/Great
Depression so immigration
virtually stopped
- 1917 Literacy Test
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