How did the national origin system propose to regulate immigration to the United States?
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Beginning in 1921, a series of measures was enacted that marked a new era in American immigration policy. Whatever the legal language, the measures were drawn up to block the growing immigration from Southern Europe (from Italy and Greece, for example) and also to block all Asian immigrants by establishing a zero quota for them.
Quotas were deliberately weighted to favor immigration from Northern Europe. Because of the ethnic composition of the country in 1920, the quotas placed severe restrictions on immigration from the rest of Europe and other parts of the world. Immigration from the Western Hemisphere (i.e., Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean) continued unrestricted. The quota for each nation was set at 3 percent of the number of people descended from each nationality recorded in the 1920 census. Once the statistical manipulations were completed, almost 70 percent of the quota for the Eastern Hemisphere went to just three countries: Great Britain, Ireland, and Germany.
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_____ teach(es) us what is appropriate sexual behavior for each gender.
A. Dramaturgical roles B. Institutional sexism C. Sexual scripts D. Gender constructs
The phrase “doing the dance” refers to which of the following?
b. African Americans dressing conventionally, speaking in a “neutral” voice, and being extra polite in areas largely populated by Whites. c. African Americans knowing how to act if/when interactions with the police are necessary. d. African Americans placing a greater emphasis on family life than do other racial/ethnic groups.
When a country is ruled by a small group of people at the top who exercise a great deal of power, often illegitimately obtained, it is termed which of these?
A. capitalist dictatorship B. informal bureaucracy C. oligarchy D. democracy