On the 21st of May, 1921 the US Senate voted 78-1 to introduce the Emergency Quota Act to curtail immigration to the United States. The end of World War I had seen the resurgence in foreign nationals travelling to live in America. At a time of high employment in the States and amid an increasing desire for isolationism, the rise in immigrants was perceived as threat to the American people. The emergency quota introduced a limit that restricted the admission of new immigrants to 3 per cent of the number of foreigners already living in the States according to the 1910 census.
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