PLEASE HELP! Restrictive immigration laws were passed in the 1920s. Compare those laws and the reasons behind them with current debates about immigration in the United States.

The visa arrangement in place when the 1965 law was passed was a legacy from half a century earlier. At that earlier time, a giant wave of immigration that began in the late 1800s had raised the nation’s population of foreign-born residents to a then-record high of 13.9 million in 1920, making up a near-record 13% of the U.S. population (Gibson and Jung, 2006; Passel and Cohn, 2008).5 The first arrivals in this wave were mainly Northern Europeans, but by the early 1900s most new arrivals came from Italy,

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. political or economical policy that isolates a country from participating in international relationships. it has been suggested that the united states participates in isolationism because of its lack of involvement in particular wars or alliances.

religion played a major role in the american revolution by offering a moral sanction for opposition to the british--an assurance to the average american that revolution was justified in the sight of god. the revolution strengthened millennialist strains in american.