Congress passed the Immigration Act in a relatively noncontroversial bipartisan effort. Coolidge signed it despite reservations about the law’s restriction of Japanese migrants.

The Immigration Act of 1924 reverberated beyond American borders, ... Barred from America, some 300,000 Jews fled eastern Europe for Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s.

A Smithsonian curator and a historian discuss the links between the Johnson-Reed Act and Executive Order 9066, which rounded up 120,000 Japanese Americans in camps across the Western U.S.

It’s been 100 years since the 1924 Immigration Act was signed into law. It shaped the U.S. immigration system and established racial quotas.

Based on the clip, how did the Act limit immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe? How and why was the U.S. Border Control created, according to Maddalena Marinari? Explain its impact.

Ironically, the main groups targeted for exclusion under the 1924 Act were migrants from eastern, southern, and central Europe: Italians, Jews, Poles, Greeks, and others.

Signed by President Calvin Coolidge, the Immigration Act of 1924 dramatically reduced immigration from eastern and southern Europe and practically barred it from Asia. How the law did this ...

Ad Policy This article appears in the August 2024 issue, with the headline “The Selfish Free.”. The 100th anniversary of the Immigration Act of 1924 came and went this spring with little fanfare.

The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924, signed into law 100 years ago Friday, set strict nation-based quotas on who could come to America. Trump has suggested similar measures.

But Trump’s racial vehemence registers at higher decibels, echoing Rep. Albert Johnson, R-Wash., co-sponsor with Sen. David Reed, R-Pa., of the 1924 Immigration Act, who decried the “stream of ...