1. Nativism
The early 20-century was a big chaos and had continuous fluctuation of economy in America, and this instability of American society led to several social issues such as unemployment and the growth of large communities of foreign peoples. ... The original purpose of this prohibition law was to decrease the new immigrant population, but since the result was failure, Congress passed an emergency immigration act, which contained a quota system by controlling annual immigrant population as no more than 3 percent of the number of persons of that nationality who had been in America in 1910. ... Sinc...
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