What Did the Immigration Act of 1924 Do

question 68

Multiple Choice

What did the Immigration Act of 1924 do?

• A) It closed immigration from Latin America into the United States until 1945 since Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover caused increased tensions with this part of the world.
• B) It targeted and limited the number of immigrants from northern and western European countries, most of all due to strained relationships with these countries after the Great World War.
• C) It reversed the Chinese Exclusion Act to allow Asian immigrants to enter the United States and otherwise was blind to ethnic or cultural factors.
• D) It reduced the number of immigration quotas of each nationality's population as of 1890 to especially limit the number of southern and eastern Europeans entering the country.
• E) It opened the United States to nearly unlimited immigration because industrialization and urbanization had opened up far more jobs than current American citizens could fill.

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