5 History-Immigration Controls

Question	Answer
Who were the WASP's?	White Anglo Saxon Protestants. Worried that their country was filling up with Southern and Eastern Europeans migrants and feared for jobs. They also feared migrants were communists.
What were some of the Immigration laws put in place?	1917 Immigration Law- made foreigners take a literacy test. 1921 Quota Act- Limited numbers coming into the USA from each country abroad to 3% of the total from that country already in the USA in 1910. 1924 National Origins Act- reduced the figure to 2% and based them on numbers in 1890 which favoured migrants from the 'old' Northern European states.
Who were the KKK and what did they do?	The Ku Klux Klan was set up in 1866 and reformed in 1915. They had 5 million members in the 20's. They attacked blacks, catholics and jews. They met in secret at night wearing white hoods. They carried out rapes, beatings, torture.
Why did courts often turn a blind eye to the KKK?	Some members of the courts were part of the KKK.
When was the Klan leader arrested and how did it effect the Klan?	After 1925 for rape and murder and this made the membership fall.

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