Curated OER
History Matters: Shut the Door: A Senator Speaks for Immigration Restriction
Read the speech by a senator from South Carolina who used racist theories to support his argument for the Immigration Act of 1924. He was not alone in the Senate inhis support for restrictive immigration policies.
Curated OER
History Matters: An Un American Bill: A Congressman Denounces Immigration Quotas
The rise of anti-immigration feeling after World War I resulted in legislation limiting the number of immigrants from various areas of of the world. Read the speech by a Congressman decrying the immigration quotas by giving examples of...
Curated OER
History Matters: Japan Responds to Japanese Exclusion
An editorial from the Japan Times and Mail denounced the the U.S. Senate's inclusion of the National Origins Act within the Immigration Act of 1924 that limited the immigration of Japanese to the United States. Read the background of the...
Stanford University
Stanford History Education Group: Mexican Labor in the 1920s [Pdf]
[Free Registration/Login Required] Review historical documents of Mexican-Americans in the 1920's. Learners will address what it was like to be a Mexican in America during this time considering working conditions, home life, etc.
Other
Civics Online: Comprehensive Immigration Law of 1924
Read the text of the Immigration Act of 1924 which lays out the specific quotas for immiigrants from over fifty countries.
Harvard University
Open Collections Program: Immigration to the United States, 1789 1930: Timeline
A broad look at immigration policy, its changes, and the numbers of immigrants arriving in the United States from its beginnings until 1940. Included are hyperlinks to primary sources related to the topic in the Harvard University Library.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Tensions Over Immigration
Section addresses U.S. tensions over immigration and government policies affecting the number of immigrants allowed to enter the U.S. after World War I.
University of Minnesota
U Mn: Immigration History: Gatekeeping
This resource presents political cartoons from four different national contexts. Its goal is to further understandings of the ways in which nation-states affect an individual's ability to move freely around the world.
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Melanie Simone Lorenz, "Promoting Immigration in 19th Century America"
This blog focuses on the U.S.'s need for immigration in the 19th and early 20th century to satisfy particular labor needs and increase investments.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Immigration Quotas, 1920 1939
Collection of digital resources gathered from public libraries, archives, and museums about immigration quotas. Find out how the U.S. redefined and restricted immigration in the 1920s.
Digital History
Digital History: Immigration Restriction
A brief discussion about the views toward immigration before and after World War I. It gives the background of the Immigration Act of 1924.
Other
Uw Bothel/ccc Library: u.s. Immigration Legislation: 1924 Immigration Act
Find a link to the text of the Immigration Act of 1924 along with a brief summary of the quotas set in the legislation.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Immigration Act of 1924
A comprehensive summary with interesting facts about the Immigration Act of 1924 that used national origin quotas as a permanent basis for U.S. immigration policy.