Acts
The Immigration Act of 1929 is also known as
The National Orgins Plan
The fear that Catholic immigrants were more loyal to the pope than the US government was known as
Anti-Catholicism
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.
WASP stands for
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
By 1910, this percent of the U.S. population was foreign-born
15%
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.
The nativism resurgence was caused by
The Red Scare and the exponential increase in immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe
Rather than protestant, these two forms of Christianity became prominent
Orthodox and catholic