Emergency Quota Act

The Emergency Quota Act ( German: "Emergency Quota Act " ) was a law that came into the United States in 1921 at the federal level in force to restrict immigration, which had risen sharply after the First World War. The law, which was adopted on 19 May 1921 and was known as " Johnson Quota Act," regulated, were how many people per year from which countries of origin to enter.

Apart from the Chinese Exclusion Act, which in 1882 had to restrict the influx of Chinese, the Emergency Quota Act was the first federal law that made ​​the leave to enter the United States of the nationality of the applicant's dependent. The law was three years later replaced by the Immigration Act of 1924, whose provisions were even sharper.

Details of the Law

The Act made ​​the number of admissible immigrants of a particular country of origin depends on how many compatriots who lived at the time of the census of 1910 in the United States. This number must not exceed 3% per year of the counted down year population.

Excluded from the scheme, inter alia, government officials, minor children of American citizens and residents were from other countries in the Americas.