GCSE History

  1. those who wanted to restrict immigration were not satisfied with the 1921 act and called for even .... controls , so in ..... the government went further with the ..... .... Act . this reduced immigration by changing the quota
    • stricter
    • 1924
    • Johnson Reed
  2. according to the Johnson Reed Act only ..... immigrants were to be allowed into the USA every year . A country was now only allowed to send ... of the (sentence) . this was planned to allow most of the quota to go to nationalities from .... and ... .... . The South and the ..... of Europe were only to send ...... immigrants per year . Only ..... non Europeans were to be allowed entry
    • 150,000
    • 2%
    • number of immigrants present in 1890
    • North and Western Europe
    • East
    • 20,000
    • 4,000
  3. It was obvious that the act had pushed the key year from .... to .... beacuse up to .... America still has a mainly .... population , but after that year up to ..... some .... million immigrants had entered the USA from the .... .... and from the .... and ... of Europe . The johnson reed act deliberately chose 1980 as the key year in order to .... what they saw as the .... .... of .... immigrants . the impact this act had on immigration can be seen from the fact that from 1900-1910 about ..... Italians had immigrated every year to the USA , but after the quota only .... per year were allowed to enter . At the same time over ..... Germans a year were allowed to enter
    • 1910
    • 1890
    • 1980
    • WASP
    • 1914
    • 15
    • Middle East
    • East
    • South
    • exclude
    • undesireable types
    • inferior
    • 20,000
    • 4,000
    • 57,000
  4. .... of the 150,000 permitted entries were from .... ... countries , with Germany , Britian and Ireland having the ... quotas . the fact that the US government was now officially acting on the wide spread faer and dislike of those from ethenic backgrounds reflected the (sentence)
    • 86%
    • Northern European
    • highest
    • racist mood of the twenties
Author
ghoran
ID
138720
Card Set
GCSE History
Description
revision
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