History of the United States II / Unit 9 USH2 1213 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Emergency Quota Act
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The idea
The Emergency Quota Act of nineteen twenty-one limited each nationality's immigrants to three percent of its residents counted in the nineteen ten census.
In practice
Quotas calculated country by country from one census year.
Where people slip
The formula looked neutral. The next law showed how a choice of census year could decide who came.
Your place on the trail
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