Word: census
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...providing $30,000,000 for the census of 1930, and for reapportioning the representation in the House. The Constitution calls fo a reapportionment every ten years. There has been none now in nearly 20 years with the result that, for example, California with a population of 4,433,000 (1927 estimate) has eleven Congressmen and Wisconsin with a population of 2,918,000 also has eleven Congressmen...
...original native stock of the country was to be preserved. The 1924 law therefore carried a provision for the establishment of quotas based on National Origins Scientists were to determine the racial composition of the present day U. S., starting from the first U. S. census (1790. pop 3,900,000), analyzing the growth of population to date with reference to national ancestries and thus, in effect, fixing the proportion each foreign country contributed to U.S. "native stock" and the development of that stock since. To the U S were then to be admitted 150,000 immigrants annually, in direct...
Postponement. The British burned most early U. S. census details in the sack of Washington in 1814. Native stock, clear in the early days, was blurred by intermarriage with alien newcomers. Historical data is scant or unreliable. Racial names have become meaningless through social changes. So the 2Oth Century scientists bogged down in confusion and Congress in 1927, postponed the effective date of National Origins to July 1, 1928; later to July 1, 1929, where it now remains...
...example, the 2% quota system now admits 51,227 Germans each year. Just prior to the census of 1890, there was a heavy tide of German immigration, far above Germany's average in earlier and subsequent periods. Under National Origins, the German quota would be cut down...
...other hand, the majority ot U. S people are of British ancestry. British immigration had dwindled when the 1890 census was taken. The British quota on that basis allows only -34,007 newcomers. Under the National Origins system Great Britain's quota would...