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- Immigration_Act_of_1917 abstract "On February 5, 1917, the United States Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 (also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act) with an overwhelming majority, overriding President Woodrow Wilson's December 14, 1916, veto. This act added to the number of undesirables banned from entering the country, including but not limited to “homosexuals”, “idiots”, “feeble-minded persons”, "criminals", “epileptics”, “insane persons”, alcoholics, “professional beggars”, all persons “mentally or physically defective”, polygamists, and anarchists. Furthermore, it barred all immigrants over the age of sixteen who were illiterate. The most controversial part of the law was the section that designated an "Asiatic Barred Zone", a region that included much of Asia and the Pacific Islands from which people could not immigrate. Previously, only the Chinese had been excluded from admission to the country. Attempts at introducing literacy tests were previously vetoed by Grover Cleveland in 1897 and William Taft in 1913. Wilson also objected to this clause in the Immigration Act, but it was still passed by Congress on the fourth attempt.Anxiety in the United States about immigration has often been directed toward immigrants from China and Japan. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 barred Chinese from entering the US. The Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 was made with Japan to regulate Japanese immigration to the US. The Immigration Act of 1917 is one of many immigration acts during this time period which arose from nativist and xenophobic sentiment. These immigration laws were intentional efforts to control the composition of immigrant flow into the United States.".
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- Immigration_Act_of_1917 wikiPageWikiLink Literacy.
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- Immigration_Act_of_1917 wikiPageWikiLink Luce-Celler_Act_of_1946.
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- Immigration_Act_of_1917 wikiPageWikiLinkText "1917".
- Immigration_Act_of_1917 wikiPageWikiLinkText "Asiatic Barred Zone".
- Immigration_Act_of_1917 wikiPageWikiLinkText "Immigration Act of 1917".
- Immigration_Act_of_1917 wikiPageWikiLinkText "Literacy Act".
- Immigration_Act_of_1917 wikiPageWikiLinkText "literacy requirement in 1917".
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- Immigration_Act_of_1917 othershorttitles "Asiatic Barred Zone Act".
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- Immigration_Act_of_1917 vetoeddate "1916-12-14".
- Immigration_Act_of_1917 vetoedpresident "Woodrow Wilson".
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- Immigration_Act_of_1917 comment "On February 5, 1917, the United States Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 (also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act) with an overwhelming majority, overriding President Woodrow Wilson's December 14, 1916, veto.".
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- Immigration_Act_of_1917 wasDerivedFrom Immigration_Act_of_1917?oldid=682920845.
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