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Signed into law by President Calvin Coolidge on May 24, 1924 The Immigration Act of 1924 , or Johnson–Reed Act , including the Asian Exclusion Act and National Origins Act ( Pub. L. 68–139 , 43 Stat. 153 , enacted May 26, 1924 ), was a United States federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants ...
The Japanese government finally quit issuing passports to the Territory of Hawaii for single women in the 1920s. Congress also banned persons because of poor health or lack of education. An 1882 law banned entry of "lunatics" and infectious disease carriers. This law was called The General Admission Act.
1920 Passport Act of 1920: Pub. L. 66–238: 1921 Emergency Quota Act: Limited the number of immigrants a year from any country to 3% of those already in the US from that country as per the 1910 census, establishing the National Origins Formula. "An unintended consequence of the 1920s legislation was an increase in illegal immigration.
This is a chronological, but incomplete, list of United States federal legislation passed by the 57th through 106th United States Congresses, between 1901 and 2001. For the main article on this subject, see List of United States federal legislation.
Racial minorities were not the only people affected by these laws. About 4,000 poor white Virginians were involuntarily sterilized by government order. When Laughlin testified before the Virginia assembly in support of the Sterilization Act in 1924, he argued that the "shiftless, ignorant, and worthless class of anti-social whites of the South ...
The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. [1] The alcohol industry was curtailed by a succession of state legislatures, and Prohibition was formally introduced nationwide under the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified on January 16, 1919.
The movement gained some legislative attention when a 1920 Michigan referendum for compulsory public education received 40% of the vote. [3] In 1922, Oregon passed a similar referendum. Eventually this law was challenged and unanimously struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in Pierce v. Society of Sisters. [4]
Passed the House on July 22, 1919 (295–105, 3 Present [3]) Passed the Senate with amendment on September 5, 1919 (Voice vote [ 4 ] ) Reported by the joint conference committee on October 6, 1919; agreed to by the Senate on October 8, 1919 (Voice vote [ 5 ] ) and by the House on October 10, 1919 ( 230–69 , 1 Present [ 6 ] )