1. Woodrow Wilson and Immigration Laws
A month before of the arrival of Wilson to the presidency in 1913, President William Howard Taft, was forced to veto the immigration bill that sought to impose literacy tests for immigrants who have more than 16 years. ... As I mentioned before though, the main argument of this bill was the introduction of the literacy test. In such a written test about the constitution of the United States was included. ... Burnett of Alabama, the Democratic chairman of the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, that sought to reintroduce the measure of literacy test as measure against uncontrolle...
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