Immigration Act of 1917
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title:
Immigration Act of 1917
text:
The Immigration Act of 1917 was a United States Act that aimed to restrict immigration by imposing literacy tests on immigrants, creating new categories of inadmissible persons, and barring immigration from the Asia-Pacific zone. The most sweeping immigration act the United States had passed until that time it followed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 in marking a turn toward nativism. The 1917 act governed immigration policy until it was amended by the Immigration Act of 1924; both acts were r
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United States law
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1917
date created:
2005-09-06T18:15:23Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T03:37:58Z
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