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1924: The Immigration Act of 1924 U.S. History Resources 1924 The Immigration Act of 1924 The Immigration Act of 1994 (also known as the National Origins Act) was designed to reduce immigration from Asia as well as from Southern and Eastern Europe. This Act was even harsher than the Immigration Act of 1921, which had limited annual immigration from any country to three percent of the people from that country who had been living in the United States in 1900. The 1924 law reduced that limit to two percent, and used the 1890 census rather than the 1900 as the basis for the calculations. Whereas it is provided in the act of Congress approved May 26, 1924, entitled "An act to limit the immigration of aliens into the United States, and for other purposes" that…"The annual quota of any nationality shall be two per centum of the number of foreign-born individuals of such nationality resident in continental United States as determined by the United States census of 1890.... Now, therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America acting under and by virtue of the power in me vested by the aforesaid act of Congress, do hereby proclaim and make known that on and after July 1, 1924, and throughout the fiscal year 1924-25, the quota of each nationality provided in said Act shall be as follows: Country or area of birth Quota 1924-1925 Afghanistan Albania Andorra Arabian peninsula Armenia Australia Austria Belgium Bhutan Bulgaria Cameroon (British) Cameroon (French) China Czechoslovakia Danzig, Free City of Denmark Egypt Esthonia Ethiopia (Abyssinia) Finland France Germany Great Britain and Northern Ireland 100 100 100 100 124 121 785 512 100 100 100 100 100 3,073 228 2,789 100 124 100 170 3,954 51,227 Greece Hungary Iceland India Iraq (Mesopotamia) Irish Free State Italy Japan Latvia Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxemburg Monaco Morocco Muscat (Oman) Nauru Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Norway New Guinea Palestine Persia 34,007 1 100 473 100 100 100 28,567 3,845 100 142 100 100 344 100 100 100 100 100 100 1,648 100 6,453 100 100 100 1924: The Immigration Act of 1924 Poland Portugal Ruanda and Urundi Rumania Russia, European and Asiatic Samoa, Western San Marino Siam South Africa, Union of South West Africa U.S. History Resources 5,982 503 100 603 Spain Sweden Switzerland Syria and The Lebanon Tanganyika Togoland (British) Togoland (French) Turkey Yap Yugoslavia 2,248 100 100 100 100 100 131 9,561 2,081 100 100 100 100 100 100 671 QUESTIONS 1. 2. In rank order, what nations are allowed the five largest quotas? Why do you think Congress specified the 1890 census rather than the census of 1900, 1910, or 1920 as the base line for the quotas? What is the combined total allowed to China and Japan? Nations not listed were not subject to numerical quotas. What areas of the world are not included? 2