Chinese Immigration Act 1924

This act imposed numerical limitations on the number of immigrants allowed in the United States; This quota determined that any particular nationality was allowed to have 2% of their foreign-born individuals become a resident within the continental Americas as determined by the US census of 1890 with a minimum quota of any nationality being 100, but Asians were entirely excluded from immigrating or being factored in this act. The annual quota for any nationality from 1st July 1927 onwards, was ascertained to bear the same ratio to 150,000 as the number of inhabitants in America in 1920, with a minimum quota of any nationality being 100. With the first World War concerns over national security were raised which led the U.S. Congress to enact the immigration law in 1917, which was widely restrictive in nature. A series of legislative acts thereafter culminated into the 1924 Act, one of which was the legislation of a literacy test effective from 1917; This required any immigrant over the age of 16 years old to demonstrate comprehension and understanding in a particular language.

soil; The Chinese had their own act entirely which barred them from entering the U.S known as “The Chinese Exclusion Act” which gave immigration officials the authority needed, mainly in discretion on deciding whom to exclude from entering U.S. soil without much resistance at