National Origins Act of 1924 put quotas on immigration as a result of the 1890 census, based on only European and Asian immigration. It stayed in effect until after WWII.
Passed in 1924, this law placed a limit on immigration.
Americans were becoming outraged at the amount of jobs they were losing to immigrants and there was also a wide-spread panic of potential...
National Origins Act of 1924 put quotas on immigration as a result of the 1890 census, based on only European and Asian immigration. It stayed in effect until after WWII.
Surveys had shown that the Native American population were suffering economically from the increase in immigration from Asia and North/South Europe. Therefore the act was implemented to solve this...