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Changing Immigration

Question 3 • RMA FL-2100310-United States History Semester 2

Which was true of US immigration policy before the Immigration Act of 1965?

Answer
A
Immigration from Western Europe was restricted.
B
Immigration from the Middle East was restricted.
C
All immigration was encouraged; there were no quotas.
D
Ethnic diversity was encouraged to avoid uniformity.

Explanation

Before the Immigration Act of 1965, U.S. policy used national-origins quotas that strongly favored immigrants from Northern and Western Europe and limited immigration from many other regions, including the Middle East. Western European immigration was not the group singled out for restriction, and quotas did exist. So the true statement is that immigration from the Middle East was restricted.

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