Emergency Quota Act of 1921

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:United_States_federal_law
gptkbp:affects	immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	Per Centum Law
gptkbp:category	immigration law
gptkbp:citation	Public Law 67-5
gptkbp:country	gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:dateEnacted	May 19, 1921
gptkbp:enactedBy	gptkb:United_States_Congress
gptkbp:excludes	immigrants from Western Hemisphere
gptkbp:historicalName	post-World War I nativism
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Emergency Quota Act of 1921
gptkbp:impact	drastically reduced immigration numbers
gptkbp:influencedBy	nativist sentiment
gptkbp:precededBy	open immigration policy
gptkbp:purpose	limit immigration to the United States
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Immigration_Act_of_1924
gptkbp:repealedBy	no
gptkbp:restrictedImmigrationFrom	gptkb:Europe
gptkbp:setQuota	3% of the number of residents from each country living in the U.S. as of the 1910 Census
gptkbp:signedBy	gptkb:Warren_G._Harding
gptkbp:successor	gptkb:Immigration_Act_of_1924
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Immigration_Act_of_1924
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6