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Migration and Immigration in the 1990s and 2000s

AP US History· difficulty 3/5

Legal Immigration to U.S. by Region (% of total) 100 50 0 1960 Europe 75% Asia 5% LatAm 20% 2010 Eur 10% Asia 37% LatAm 45% Hart-Celler Act 1965 ends national-origin quotas

The shift in immigration source regions shown above resulted most directly from which 1965 law?

  • A

    The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

  • B

    The Immigration and Nationality (Hart-Celler) Act, which abolished national-origin quotas

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  • C

    The Refugee Act of 1980

  • D

    The Emergency Quota Act of 1921

Explanation

Hart-Celler ended the 1924 quota system that favored Northern Europeans, replacing it with hemispheric caps and family-reunification preferences. Asian and Latin American immigration grew dramatically in the decades after.

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