Nativists Calling for Restriction of Immigrants.

At the turn of the century Americans were shocked by the change in the type of immigrants they thought they would enter the United States. They believe that some of the distinguishing features of new immigrants and old immigrants are reality, some are imagined, some are quasi-realistic. Old immigrants peaked in the 1880s. New immigrants peaked in 1907. Most old immigrants come from Scandinavian countries and Western European countries and are Protestant. They are cultural, skilled, come as families, and have some money with them.

A. Immigrants from Europe before the First World War have peaked. During the First World War and after the war, the civil war campaign against certain ethnic groups restricted immigration quotas, especially from South and Eastern Europe, and further increased obstacles. Asian immigrants C. Mobilization and military service will provide opportunities to improve the socioeconomic status of women and minorities during the war and stimulate discussions about apartheid. Experience during wartime also throws challenges to the freedom of citizens, such as detention of Japanese Americans.

From the beginning of the large immigrants from 1880 to 1924, more and more politicians and activists demanded restrictions on immigrants. Regulations such as "China's exclusion", "Foreign contract labor law", literacy test system, etc. do not prevent the flow of new immigrants. Indeed, as the main entrance to the new immigrants, in 1921 the death bell of Ellis Island began to ring. In 1921, the allocation law was passed and in 1924 the "National Origin Law" was passed and it reached its climax. According to the number of ethnic minorities already living in the United States in the census of 1890 and 1910, these limits are based on a percentage system.

Historian John Heme said in Johnson Reed's Act of 1924: Under the law of 1924, the quota system was established based on the origin of the state. It targeted nearly 70% of immigration channels to northern Europe, and greatly reduced immigration from South and Eastern Europe. It retains a strong barrier to immigration from Asia and Africa, leaving immigrants from the Western hemisphere unlimited - this hemispheric solidarity also helps the benefits of cheap labor of US employers