ANT 322M Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Foreign Corporation
27 Mar 2017
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Deportations, u. s. retaliates against article 27 of the mexican constitution. Article 27 (nationalization of oil wells and land taken over by foreign corporations) A plan takes place to institute an embargo system so that u. s. businesses couldn"t trade with mexico. He instituted a deportation system for those immigrants who hadn"t yet been naturalized. U. s. congressional immigration acts: national origin quotas to reduce immigration of majority non-white nations . By 1920s, u. s. no longer needed labor in manufacturing or agricultural, so they wanted to curb immigration. They began in 1917 by requiring immigrants to take a literacy test. They no longer wanted immigrants from southern europe, russians, Asians and began forming a system in which western europeans or. British, irish and germans could come into the u. s. These were the only immigrants that were considered productive. In 1924 johnson-reid act reduced quota to 2% of the number of foreign-born of each nationality counted in 1890 census; set total at.
