What statement describes the US immigration policy in the 1920's?

Answer 1

Public reaction to the many strike that occurred during the year 1919, revealed a deep hostility in the American public for immigrants and Immigration. The best example of this feeling was the “Red Scare” of 1919. In reaction to the creation of the Communist International Organization, and bombs found in the US Post Office addressed to prominent American figures, the Attroney-General, A. Mitchell Palmer conducted raids on suspected Communist headquarters and in the process, deported or imprisoned many persons simply because they were immigrants and suspected Communists. The Sacco and Vanzetti trial was another example of anti-immigrant feelings in the country. In 1921, Congress enacted a law limiting annual immigration to the US to 350,000 people per year. Each year, European nations could send to the US a number equal to 3 percent of its nationals who were in the US in the year 1910. In 1924, Congress amended the immigration law and reduced the number of immigrants to 150,000, and the quota to 2 percent, and the base year to 1890. This law favored immigration from nations like Great Britain, but discriminated against central and eastern European nations like Poland, Russia and Syria.

Answer 2

Immigrants from independent nations in North and South America were allowed to enter the U.S. without restrictin.