Acts
Nativism Movement
Immigration
100

The Immigration Act of 1929 is also known as

The National Orgins Plan

100

The fear that Catholic immigrants were more loyal to the pope than the US government was known as

Anti-Catholicism

100
US Population in 1880
50 million
200

The Immigration Act of 1924 resulted in

Quotas were cut from 3% to 2% and shifted the base year from 1910 to 1890. This effectively cut back on immigration from eastern and southern Europe (the new immigrants). It also completely blocked immigration from Japan.

200

Anti-Radicalism emerged following

The 1917 Russian Revolution, claiming immigrants from Eastern Europe were stigmatized as "anarchists" who wanted to overthrow American capitalism
200

By 1910, this percent of the U.S. population was foreign-born

15%

300

The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 limited

the number yearly number of immigrants from each nation to 3% of the foreign-born persons from that nation living in the US in 1910. The law tended to favor immigrants from southern and eastern Europe since huge numbers from those countries had arrived by 1910.

300

Derived from the pseudo-science of eugenics, this belief claimed that Southern and Eastern Europeans were biologically inferior to Anglo-Saxons

Scientific Racism

300

Rather than protestant, these two forms of Christianity became prominent

Orthodox and catholic