With President Calvin Coolidge’s signature on May 24, 1924, the United States dramatically reversed the country’s previous unrestricted immigration policies. The Immigration Act of 1924, also known as the National Origins Act, established country quotas at 2% of each nationality recorded as living in the US in 1890. It cut annual intake to 165,000 people a year, one-fifth of the total in 1914, and cut it again to 150,000. It reduced religious, ethnic and racial diversity. Which was the point.
May 24, 1924: IMMIGRATION ACT
May 24, 1924: IMMIGRATION ACT
May 24, 1924: IMMIGRATION ACT
With President Calvin Coolidge’s signature on May 24, 1924, the United States dramatically reversed the country’s previous unrestricted immigration policies. The Immigration Act of 1924, also known as the National Origins Act, established country quotas at 2% of each nationality recorded as living in the US in 1890. It cut annual intake to 165,000 people a year, one-fifth of the total in 1914, and cut it again to 150,000. It reduced religious, ethnic and racial diversity. Which was the point.