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It passed a law difining who could become a citizen if a person was not born here: citizenship was possible only for someone who was a free white person.
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one of the heaviest periods of immagration in american histoy came between the 19=880 and the 1920 when some 25 million immagrents arrived.
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in 1882 congress responded by passing the chinese act it said that no chinese laborer could enter the U.S. for 10 years.
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Congress sets up quotas favoring immagrants from north western europe the immagration act of 1924 expands the quotq system immagration from any country is limmited to 2 percent of its total numbers in the 1890 census.
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the immagration act of 1924 introduced a quota system by contry each contreys immagrants were limmited to 2 percent of foreign- born residents from that country listed in the U.S. census of 1890.