The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 set up a quota system. This system established the maximum number of people who could enter the United States from each foreign country.
From 1919 to 1921, the number of immigrants had grown almost 600%-from 141,000 to 805,000 people.
As amended in1924, the law limited immigration from each European nation to 2% of the number of its nationals living in the United States in 1890.
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