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. ... Nativism is a strong opposition to foreign connections in American society and also the nativists" opinion is that cultural differences may destroy American's way of life. ...

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