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Immigration Quotas, 1925–1927. In response to growing public opinion against the flow of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe in the years following World War I, Congress passed first the Quota Act of 1921 then the even more restrictive Immigration Act of 1924 (the Johnson-Reed Act).
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1 Σεπ 2022 · Through these laws, Congress imposed a ban on most immigration from Asia, devised a quota system based on national origins to restrict immigration from eastern and southern Europe, hardened the boundaries between legality and illegality, and expanded several categories for exclusion and deportation.
During congressional debate over the 1924 Act, Senator Ellison DuRant Smith of South Carolina drew on the racist theories of Madison Grant to argue that immigration restriction was the only way to preserve existing American resources.
The 70th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from March 4, 1927, to March 4, 1929, during the last two years of Calvin Coolidge 's presidency.
The Johnson-Reed Act provided that beginning July 1, 1927, the formula would no longer use a national percentage but revert to a flat number of immigrants to the United States, capped at 150,000. The change from 2% to 150,000 planned for 1927 was later postponed to July 1, 1929.
When Congress reconvened in December, pro-slavery Senate leaders put the Maine and Missouri questions into a single bill, in an attempt to make approving slavery in Missouri a condition of admitting Maine as a state.
Congress had no authority to prevent the introduction of a new slave state into the Union or require any other special condition for statehood that was not demanded of existing states. The House voted 82 to 78 to require the exclusion of slavery in the new state of Missouri. When the Senate rejected the restriction, the Fifteenth Congress
