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The emergency quota law of 1921 limited the number of immigrants from a particular country to _______ percent of the total number from that country living in the united states in 1910.

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"With that, in 1921, the Emergency Quota Act was signed into law. This legislation restricted new immigration to 3 percent of the number of residents per year from their country of origin already living in the United States."
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