may 19, 1921 - Emergency Quota Act is Passed

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This act is Congress' first attempt to regulate immigration by setting admission "quotas" based on nationality. The law limits the number of immigrants of each nationality allowed to immigrate to the U.S. each year to 3% of the foreign born persons of that nationality present in the United States as of the 1910 census. Temporary visitors, government officials, and nationals of Western Hemisphere countries were excluded from the quotas. (Continuity: anti immigration legislation directed against Asians)

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