Day 1 - Oostburg School District

Immigration Act of 1924
Matt
Hopeman
In 1924 president Johnson signed the immigration act of
1924 or also known as National Origins Act or the Johnson-
Reed Act. This act reduced the number of allowed immigrants
into the United States from 358,000 to 164,000 people. In
addition, the Act reduced the immigration limit from 3 percent
to 2 percent of each foreign-born group living in the United
States in 1890. During World Wars I and II, the U.S. recruited
thousands of temporary workers from Mexico to harvest crops
in our labor-short farmland. Since American immigration
policies failed to make out between immigrants and refugees in
the quota counts, most of the refugees (mainly Jews) were
banned from coming to the United States.
http://www.historicaldocuments.com/ImmigrationActof1924.htm