Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted (190 to 152) a resolution to postpone the effective date of the national origins quota system of immigration until July...
...Quotas. In 1921 the quota system was first applied to restrict European immigration into the U. S. A slot method of admission was set up, its size crudely fixed at 3% of the number of foreign-born U. S. residents enumerated in the Census of 1910. This slot seemed still too large. In 1924 it was closed to 2% of the foreign-born population of the 1890 census...
...Presidential candidate Herbert Hoover again said: "The basis now in effect [2% quota] carries out the essential principle of the law and I favor repeal of that part of the law calling for a new [National Origins] basis of quotas...
Changes Involved. Last week President Coolidge sent to Congress the final "scientific" figures, showing what would happen under National Origins. No great numerical difference would mark the change. At present the 2% quota system admits about 164,000 immigrants per year. Under National Origins about 153,000 aliens-150,000 as set in the law, plus the 100 minimum allowance to all countries-would come in. There would, however, be a marked change in the composition of U. S. immigration...
...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...