Which act, also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, was one of the first to impose literacy tests and restrict immigrants from southern and eastern Europe?

The 1917 Immigration Act, also called the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, imposed a literacy test on many immigrants and barred immigration from a large area of Asia. It also contributed to restrictions affecting immigrants from southern and eastern Europe. The 1924 Immigration Act later tightened immigration quotas, but it was not the act known by that name.

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