Professor of history Gary Gerstle talks about the restrictive attitude in the United States towards immigration following World War I. Professor Gerstle explains that it was caused in part by fear that immigrants would take the jobs of native-born Americans. But it was also based on racial attitudes. "And nowhere is this clearer than in the Immigration Act," Professor Gerstle says, "...which declares that people from northern and western Europe can come to America, because they are racially superior, and people from southern and eastern Europe cannot come..."

US History Collection

history, World War One, World War I, First World War, immigrants, immigration, jobs, diversity, citizens, citizenship, assimilation, Roosevelt, Theodore, Immigration Act, the, early, 1900s, 1900's, 20th century, Twentieth Century, Immigration

America in the 20th Century, U.S. History Survey, The Unfinished Nation

Gerstle, Ph.D., Gary (Performer), INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications (Firm)

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