Immigration Restriction Act of 1921
GPTKB entity
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| gptkbp:instanceOf |
gptkb:United_States_federal_law
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| gptkbp:affects |
immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe
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| gptkbp:alsoKnownAs |
gptkb:Emergency_Quota_Act
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| gptkbp:dateEnacted |
May 19, 1921
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| gptkbp:enactedBy |
gptkb:67th_United_States_Congress
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| gptkbp:excludes |
government position
professional immigrants immigrants from Western Hemisphere |
| gptkbp:historicalSignificance |
first federal law to establish numerical limits on immigration
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| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
Immigration Restriction Act of 1921
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| gptkbp:precededBy |
no major federal immigration quotas
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| gptkbp:purpose |
limit immigration to the United States
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| gptkbp:repealedBy |
gptkb:Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1952
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| gptkbp:restrictedImmigrationFrom |
gptkb:Europe
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| gptkbp:setQuota |
3% of the number of residents from each country living in the U.S. as of the 1910 Census
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| gptkbp:signedBy |
gptkb:Warren_G._Harding
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| gptkbp:successor |
gptkb:Immigration_Act_of_1924
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| gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:Emergency_Quota_Act
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| gptkbp:bfsLayer |
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