Emergency Quota Act

In the United States , the Emergency Quota Act of May 19 , 1921 limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 3% of the number of persons from that country living in the United States in 1910 , according to Census figures. This totaled about 357,802 immigrants. Of that number just over half was allocated for northern and western Europe ans, and the remainder for eastern and southern Europeans, a 75% reduction from prior years. Professionals were allowed in despite their origins. The act was passed in a time of swelling Isolationism following World War I .

REFERENCES

Nathan Miller, ''New World Coming.'' (Cambridge, Da Capo Press, 2003).

SEE ALSO

Immigration Act Of 1924

List Of United States Immigration Legislation

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