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Immigration since 1840
Immigration Quotas, 1920-1939
Immigration Quotas, 1920-1939

Immigration Quotas, 1920-1939

Find out how the U.S. redefined and restricted immigration in the 1920s. After contentious debate between nationalist organizations and immigrant advocacy groups, the Immigration Act of 1924 established quotas based on national origins. Though it severely limited the flow of peoples to the U.S., immigrants persisted, finding new ways to arrive, settle, and thrive in the early 20th century.

  • Proposed new laws for regulating immigration and naturalization, 1920

    National Committee for Constructive Immigration Legislation

    View Full Item  in University of California
  • Quota areas related to the Immigration Act of 1924

    Department of State. Office of the Geographer. (10/7/1941 - 1/15/1944)

    View Full Item  in National Archives at College Park - Cartographic
  • Letter to James J. Davis, Department of Labor, from Portuguese Citizens of California Regarding the Immigration Act of 1924

    Department of Justice. Immigration and Naturalization Service. 6/14/1940-3/1/2003

    In this letter, the Portuguese citizens of California requested that the Immigration Act be amended to allow more Portuguese to enter the United States.

    View Full Item  in National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual Reference
  • Resolution from the Croatian League of Illinois to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization

    Department of Justice. Immigration and Naturalization Service. 6/14/1940-3/1/2003

    In this letter, the Croatian League of Illinois protested against the Immigration Act of 1924 because it restricted immigration from "Jugo-Slavia."

    View Full Item  in National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual Reference
  • Letter from Polish Citizens Club to U.S. Government protesting the Immigration Act of 1924

    Department of Justice. Immigration and Naturalization Service. 6/14/1940-3/1/2003

    In this letter the Polish Citizens Club protested against the reduction of the number of Polish immigrants allowed into the United States by the pending Immigration Act of 1924.

    View Full Item  in National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual Reference
  • S.S. Canopic landing in Boston with immigrant passengers, 1920

    Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967

    Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.

    View Full Item  in Boston Public Library
  • Roman Catholic Church of the Transfiguration, the first Lithuanian national church in Maspeth, Queens, 1920

    Paul Slapikas

    The Roman Catholic Church of the Transfiguration, the first Lithuanian national church in Maspeth, Queens, which was dedicated on August 8, 1908. Collected through the Culture in Transit grant program…

    View Full Item  in Queens Borough Public Library
  • Chinese section of downtown Seattle, 1920

    Webster & Stevens

    Starting in 1907, Chinese and Japanese businesses began moving to the area around King Street. By the 1920s, most of Seattle's Chinese residents lived and worked there. The population was largely male…

    View Full Item  in University of Washington
  • Booklet for Boston immigrants, 1921

    Boston (Mass.). Committee on Americanism

    "A short list of books for immigrants": p. 101-102.

    View Full Item  in University of Illinois
  • Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the United States, 1922

    Hourwich, Isaac A. (Isaac Aaronovich), 1860-1924

    View Full Item  in University of California
  • Immigration case file for Chinese merchant, teacher, and student, 1923

    Department of Justice. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Northeast Region. INS District No. 3 (New York, NY). 6/14/1940

    This document is filed with the Chinese Exclusion Act case file involving Warren Wong.

    View Full Item  in National Archives at New York
  • Book about Chinese migrations in the U.S., with special reference to labor conditions, 1923

    Chʻen, Ta, 1896

    View Full Item  in University of California
  • Oath of Allegiance by Swedish immigrant August Young, 1923

    Photocopy of August Young's Oath of Allegiance presented to the McCulloch County District Court, in which he renounces allegiance to any foreign power, particularly to the King of Sweden, before swear…

    View Full Item  in McCulloch County Historical Commission
  • Writings on the effects of Chinese Exclusion and the Immigration Law of 1924 on persons of Chinese descent in the U.S.

    Stidger, Oliver P., author

    Stidger was the attorney for the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. This pamphlet discusses the 1924 Immigration Law only as it applies to merchants.

    View Full Item  in California Historical Society
  • Letter from American Hebrew soliciting W. E. B. DuBois for a contribution to a special issue on the effects of immigration laws, 1924

    American Hebrew, Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

    An offer to contribute to a special issue of the magazine to consider what impact recent changes in immigration law will have in the year 2000.

    View Full Item  in Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
  • Immigrant children, Carbon County, Utah, 1925

    Mr. John Skerl

    Photo showing two Immigrant children with two dogs and some houses, Carbon County, Utah, 1925

    View Full Item  in University of Utah - J. Willard Marriott Library
  • Arrival investigation case file for Dr. Sun Yat Sen, first President of the Republic of China

    Department of Justice. Immigration and Naturalization Service. San Francisco District Office.??

    This is an immigration arrival investigation case file for Dr. Sun Yat Sen, first President of the Republic of China, known as "the Father of modern China." The first portion of the file documents Dr…

    View Full Item  in National Archives at San Francisco
  • Letter to Maria de los Reyes regarding the Alien Land Law and eviction of Japanese residents

    Hand, Geo. H., [for Maria de los Reyes D. de Francis?]: author

    Citing a need to comply with the Alien Land Law ("Alien Land Act"), the letter notes that people of Japanese descent have been observed on leaseholder Petty's property, and demands that they vacate th…

    View Full Item  in California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
  • Congressional hearing on immigration and citizenship of American-born women married to aliens, 1926

    United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization

    "Hearing no. 69.1.10"

    View Full Item  in University of Minnesota
  • Article concerning a change to immigration law to allow Hindus to become American citizens, 1926

    New Republic

    Reprint of an article concerning a change to immigration law to allow Hindus to become American citizens.

    View Full Item  in Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
  • Certificate of U.S. citizenship for Teruo Katayama, resident of Hawaii, 1927

    United States. Department of Labor. Immigration Service: author

    Certificate is for Teruo Katayama, and lists him as "a person of the Japanese race, resident in Hawaii." This collection includes records of land leased to Japanese American tenants in years leading u…

    View Full Item  in California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
  • National origins provision of immigration law, 1928

    United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on immigration

    View Full Item  in University of Michigan
  • Congressional hearing on immigration restrictions in the Western hemisphere, 1928

    United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Immigration

    Hiram W. Johnson, chairman.

    View Full Item  in University of Minnesota
  • YWCA report on “The Mexicans of the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin”

    Fenton, Agnes M

    Social worker Agnes Fenton visited Mexican families in Milwaukee on a weekly basis for much of 1929 when the city, by her estimate, was home to about 4,000 Mexican-Americans. In this somewhat rambling…

    View Full Item  in Wisconsin Historical Society
  • Immigration portrait of Genevieve Kopczynski, 1935

    Kwasniewski, Roman B.J., 1886-1980

    Kopczynski, Genevieve / 1609 W. Lincoln Ave.

    View Full Item  in University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • U.S. Immigration Office Near Tiajuana, Mexico, 1936

    Burton Frasher Sr. 1888-1955

    View Full Item  in Pomona Public Library
  • Filipino cannery workers at harbor, Alitak, Kodiak Island, 1937

    Pabillon, M.P

    Immigrants;

    View Full Item  in University of Washington
  • Chinese boys playing mah jong at Seattle immigration station, 1938

    Staff PhotographerSeattle Post-Intelligencer

    1 nitrate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in.; dichroic fog

    View Full Item  in University of Washington
  • Letter from Rachel Davis DuBois announcing the broadcast of “Americans All – Immigrants All”

    DuBois, Rachel Davis

    Alerting "Friends" to the impending broadcast of "Americans All - Immigrants All" by Columbia Broadcasting Systems, Inc., and urging listeners to send letters of endorsement to President Roosevelt.

    View Full Item  in Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
  • Still from “Ellis Island,” a 1938 film about a romance between an American war correspondent and Irish immigrant

    Ellis Island. From the back: "Wistfully charming is Arleen Whelan, Hollywood 'Cinderella Girl,' as Don Ameche tells her of his love in a romantic scene of the 20th Century-Fox production, 'Ellis Islan…

    View Full Item  in University of Washington
  • The refugee in the United States, 1938

    Fields, Harold, 1890

    Bibliography: p. [211]-216.

    View Full Item  in University of Michigan
  • Log book of a young immigrant, 1939

    Larson, Laurence Marcellus, 1868-1938

    "The writings of Laurence Marcellus Larson, compiled by Kenneth Bjørk": p. [303]-308.

    View Full Item  in University of Michigan
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