Question

All of the following statements about the 1924 Immigration Act are true EXCEPT: A. it reflected the Progressive desire to improve the quality of democratic citizenship and to employ scientific methods to set public policy. B. it satisfied the demands of large farmers in California, who relied heavily on seasonal Mexican labor, by not setting limits on immigration from the Western Hemisphere. C. it limited immigration from western Europe. D. it sought to ensure that more immigrants came from southern Europe than from northern Europe.

Answer 1

The statement that is NOT true about the 1924 Immigration Act is that it sought to ensure that more immigrants came from southern Europe than from northern Europe. The act actually favored northern and western European immigrants.

Step-by-step explanation:

The statement about the 1924 Immigration Act that is NOT true is D. It sought to ensure that more immigrants came from southern Europe than from northern Europe. In fact, the 1924 Immigration Act, also known as the Johnson-Reed Act, was designed to favor immigration from northern and western Europe over that from southern and eastern Europe. The act set a quota limiting the number of immigrants from any given nation to 2 percent of the total number of that nation's immigrants residing in the US as of the 1890 census, thus benefiting nations with higher populations in the US prior to the large influx of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe beginning in the 1890s.

Statement B is correct as the act did not set limits on immigration from the Western Hemisphere, a compromise to satisfy demands of industry and agribusiness in the Southwest that relied on Mexican labor. However, option C is only partially correct, as it did limit some immigration from western Europe, but not the traditional sources such as Britain, France, and Germany to the extent that it limited immigration from southern and eastern Europe.

Answer 2

B. it satisfied the demands of large farmers in California, who relied heavily on seasonal Mexican labor, by not setting limits on immigration from the Western Hemisphere.

Step-by-step explanation:

The 1924 Immigration Act was a law that created a permanent quota of immigrants, only 2% of the total number of individuals from each nationality that resided in the US in 1890 could be admitted to the US because during that time there were waves of Italian and Slavic immigrants going to the US.