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The 1921 Immigration Quota Act Part 1: Chaos At Incoming Ports

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This video relying heavily on newspaper articles and case studies covers the Emergency Quota Act of 1921; its history, how it changed immigration numbers and proportions especially from southern and eastern Europe, how it was carried out with some discussions of its features, problems caused by a lack of strong oversight over shipping companies and U.S. consuls, and problems with continuous over-quotas of some countries. I end with unintended consequence of the law. Some information on the more stringent 1924 law isT also shown. Some case studies are presented. Part 2 on a subsequent video will discuss in some detail preferential immigrants, non-immigrants, non-quota immigrants, and case studies of admitted and deported aliens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40cSUdlNSxE
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
https://loveman.sdsu.edu/docs/1921EmergencyQuotaAct.pdf
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