Period of Severe Restrictions
During the period of 1917 to the present time immigration has.been severely restricted. As immigrants continued to flow into the country, more and more concern was felt about admitting such large numbers. As a result more laws were passed restricting the number of immigrants who might come to our shores. In 1917 an act was passed requiring a literacy test for all immigrants over 16 years of age. In 1918 an act was passed which excluded anarchists and others who advocated the overthrow of the government by violence. These acts and the ones previously passed excluded only about 1. 4 per cent of the total number of immigrants who wanted to come to the United States, so the number of immigrants arriving here was not greatly reduced.
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