ETH STD 11AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Immigration Act Of 1924
18 Nov 2020
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The chinese exclusion act was approved on may 6, 1882. It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the united states based on national origin. Immigrant act of 1924 (aka the johnson-reed act, this act included the national origins act). Restricted annual number of immigrants from any country to 2% of those from the country of origin who were already residing in the us since 1890. Spaciousness is closely associated with the sense of being free. Freedom implies space; it means having the power and enough room in which to act. Fundamental is the ability to transcend the present condition, and this transcendance is the most simply manifest as the elementary power to move. In the act of moving, space and its attributes are directly experienced.
