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1924 Immigration Act, The (Part Two)
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson talks about the way politicians used the 1890 Census in order to justify the stipulations of the 1924 Immigration Act and limit the number of "undesirables" from Russia and Italy.
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The First Branch: Changing Congressional Boundaries
Redistricting, changing Congressional boundaries every ten years based on population shifts recorded by the census, is one of the most conflictual events In politics. The party in control tries to get as many of their partisans elected as possible, ...
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1924 Immigration Act, The (Part Three)
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson explains that there was significant opposition to the 1924 Immigration Act, but Franz Boas and others who opposed the legislation were not powerful enough to block its passage.