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Immigration
Description
A-Level History Mind Map on Immigration, created by Lucy Brown on 20/05/2016.
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Immigration
Why increase?
US economic opportunities
Escape poverty/persecution
Why restrictions?
WWI
Xenophobia of radicals/spreading of left-wing ideologies
More immigrants means higher unemployment
KKK/WASPs influence
Red Scare
Fear of Communist views
Sacco & Vanzetti provoked fears
Restrictions
1917 Literacy Test
1921 Emergency Quota Act - 3% of nationality as of 1910 census
(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
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