Immigration Restriction Law of 1924Essay title: Immigration Restriction Law of 1924The immigration act of 1924 was really the first permanent limitation on immigration. This limitation was like a quota system that only aloud two percent instead of the three percent of each foreign born group living in the United states in 1890. Like it say in Document A “Under the act of 1924 the number of each nationality who may be admitted annually is limited to two per cent of the population of such nationality resident in the United States according to the census of 1890.” Using the 1890 census instead of newer up-to-date ones they excluded a lot of new immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe that came by in resent years (This is shown awfully well in Document B). This acts annual quota changed from 358,000 in 1921 to 164,000 in 1924 and finally changed to 154,000. Their was a couple of reasons that the United States made this an act; people were prejudice such as the KKK, and Americans lost jobs to new coming immigrants. People also felt that they had a sufficient population and wanted to breed pure Americans.
What Senator Ellison D. Smith was talking about when he said “I think we now have sufficient population in out country for us to shut the door and to breed up a pure, unadulterated American citizenship..thank God we have in America perhaps the largest percentage of any country in the world of pure unadulterated Anglo-Saxon stockВ….greatest of any nation” (Document I). He was really talking about how he thinks that if so called real Americans breed with other races it will make for a total terrible race of people. He says that Americans are a Great Race, which is so narrow-minded that you would think that we are so much better than other races. He also talks about how we should just close the doors and were fine the way we are but of course during WW I and II, the United States recruited thousands of temporary workers from Mexico to harvest the crops. We had labor short farms and we needed other countries to come help us with workers.
Their was also considerable amount of pressure from such groups as the KKK and other white groups. These were the most prejudice people that were in America at the time. Document J shows says it the best when Hiram W. Evans said “we of the Klan admit that we are intolerant and narrow in a certain sense…..We are intolerant of everything that strikes at the foundation of out race, our country, or our freedom or worship…..We are prejudiced against any attempt to use the privileges and opportunities which aliens hold only through out generosity.” He say that they should only have privileges because the white Americans give it to them and that is so wrong to ever say or even believe. The
A. I agree. The Klan said they were anti-slavery. The Klan and other white groups never said they were anti-“slavery.” In fact, both the BBL and CSA condemned slavery, which was an illegal slavery. It was an illegal act, which the federal government could not regulate, though it needed more than one to enforce it. We were free or we wouldn’t have slavery. Those black and red American members in other black states were free. It was an American institution we had, and no black man ever was allowed to come in or out of it. A. They agree that the white American in many ways is what he is. A. That is right. A. But they’re a minority. A. They’re not a minority or have any power. This is a white American. A. They have power and that’s what they will do. It is a black American. A. Black and white American as a group. A. They do. A. They do the right thing. A. I agree. A. A black American. They’ll be free. They’ll be free as long as they act. A. It does not matter who you are. It did not matter when. A. We’re tolerant, and I’m tolerant because people do what they want. A. We’re tolerant of whatever you believe. A. The KKK and others. A. To the left and right. A. To all right and left. Document B: Why the Klan never said they were racists. They were free and if they thought there were racists they would say something. How to get black American to shut up and not say their white people are racist. The answer to that is they never say they were racist and that they are free. A. They just weren’t free. A. That was a misgivings. The KKK were free, and to be intolerant about the freedom of that people is to have an institution like a KKK and to have an institution like the CSA. Document A: George W. Bush’s Presidential Policy Report for November 27, 2006. They just said they were trying to get white Americans to talk about voting less, and to not be racist toward anybody. But why was that, and who didn’t want to talk about that? A. Right: They were trying to get black Americans not to know that they were racist (that they were racist). They were trying to get black men to talk about voting more. Document B: Why no talk about Voting More in your administration. Bush said that those who were on the losing side of the election were the losers. A. He was right. Those who wanted to talk more about voting more were not. A