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Preference and admission outside <strong>of</strong> the annual quota was granted to the parents, spouse<br />

and children <strong>of</strong> American citizens. 59<br />

Table 4 describes the number <strong>of</strong> foreign born residing within the U.S. as a<br />

percentage <strong>of</strong> total population from the mid-Nineteenth to mid-Twentieth Centuries and<br />

Table 5 lists the number <strong>of</strong> total immigrants during the a similar time frame. <strong>The</strong> latter<br />

highlights the significant drop in aliens admitted during the critical years <strong>of</strong> the 1930s and<br />

1940.<br />

TABLE 4: Foreign Born in the United States, 1850-1940<br />

Year Number (millions) Percentage<br />

1850 2.2 9.7<br />

1860 4.1 13.2<br />

1870 5.6 14.0<br />

1880 6.7 13.3<br />

1890 9.2 14.7<br />

1900 10.4 13.6<br />

1910 13.6 14.7<br />

1920 14.0 13.2<br />

1930 14.3 11.6<br />

1940 11.7 8.9<br />

1950 10.4 6.9<br />

Roger Daniels. Guarding the Golden Door, 5.<br />

59 Roger Daniels, Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882<br />

(NY: Hill and Wang, 2004), 49-57.<br />

78

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