December 10, 2012

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The Immigration act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed into the United States. This Act was also called Johnson-- Reed Act or the Asian Exclusion Act. It limited the annual number of immigrants allowed into the United States. It was used to make sure that number of immigrants did not skyrocket. A lot of people wanted to go the best country in the world at that time.

The Immigration Act made permanent the basic limitations on immigration into the United States. The Immigration Act of 1924 stood strong until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. This Act revised the previous act. The U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian says that  the purpose of the act was “to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity”. That means that it was to make sure the Immigrants would not overrun the country.

The act was made to put some restrictions on the some people from foreign.
countries People migrated to the United States for many reasons some of them were: One of the major reasons for immigration was persecution. Another reason could have been because of poverty. In the United States there was religious freedom, and most countries at that time did not have that.

From 1924 to 1927 the act  set the annual quota for nationality of the immigrants at 2% to number of that certain Nationality already in the United States. Then as of July 1, 1927 the formula would no longer use a percentage.  As of this date the Number of Immigrants allowed into the country were 150,000. That included the total admitted from any country based on how many were in the country during the 1920 Census.  

The 1924 Act also established the “consulor control system”. It made it that no alien could be allowed into the United States without a valid immigration visa that was given to them by the American Consulor Officer board. Basicly making it that no person ineligible to become a citizen could be migrate. this was mainly directed towards the Chinese and the Japanese, It fined transportation companies that  had put an Alien in the country.