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About This Drill
AP U.S. History — Mixed Skills — Drill 20 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Mixed Skills. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
This AP U.S. History Mixed Skills drill is based on remarks by Representative Albert Johnson during congressional debate over the Immigration Act of 1924. Questions analyze his rhetoric, the racial assumptions underlying national origins quotas, and the relationship between the 1924 Act and earlier immigration restriction legislation.
Passage
The following is adapted from remarks made by Representative Albert Johnson of Washington, chairman of the House Committee on Immigration, during congressional debate over the Immigration Act of 1924.
The racial composition of the American people has been a matter of deep concern to this Congress. We have seen that in the past forty years there has been a marked change in the character of immigration. Whereas formerly those who came to our shores were largely from the countries of northern and western Europe — nations akin to our own in language, institutions, and ideals — more recently the tide has shifted toward southern and eastern Europe, bringing with it races and peoples whose assimilation into American life is difficult and perhaps impossible. It is the purpose of this legislation to preserve the racial and cultural homogeneity of the United States and to ensure that the future population of this country reflects the character of its founders.
Questions in This Drill
- Johnson's distinction between immigrants from 'northern and western Europe' versus 'southern and eastern Europe' most directly reflects which of the following ideological frameworks prevalent in the early twentieth century?
- The Immigration Act of 1924 that Johnson is defending established a national origins quota system. This system most directly built upon which of the following earlier immigration legislation?
- Johnson's argument that the purpose of the legislation was to 'preserve the racial and cultural homogeneity of the United States' most directly contradicts which of the following competing visions of American national identity?
- The passage of the Immigration Act of 1924 most directly reflected which of the following broader developments in American society in the early 1920s?
- The national origins quota system established by the 1924 Immigration Act remained the basis of American immigration policy until