AMH-2097 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Magnuson Act, Northern Italy
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Immigration act of 1917: literacy test in order to enter the country we make literacy tests a requirement for immigration. People have to know english before they even come in: banned men and women from entering who were: idiots, imbeciles, epileptics, alcoholics, poor, criminals, beggars, insane, tuberculosis, contagious disease, physical disability that impacts labor ability. Wasps make decision of who fits into these categories. We write laws trying to make a difficult to understand law so that they don"t look like bigots. They make an equation that confuses people: 1921 quota act immigration act of 1921 is about where you are from. Established a quota for how many individuals of a particular immigrant group could enter the country annually. Quota = 3% of group"s population in the us as of the 1910 census. Exception quotas did not apply to the immigrants from the western hemisphere.
