On this day in 1921 President Harding signed the Emergency Quota Act, an immigration bill that, on an emergency basis, restricted immigrants by percentage of prior immigrants.
Contemporary cartoon on the bill.
The quota system formally limited the number in any one year, to the same number as the prior year, by their nationality. In 1924 the emergency bill was re enacted as a more permanent bill. The emergency act was brought about by an increase in immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, which Congress wished to restrict.
Students from the University of Washington's College of Fisheries on a field expedition on this day in 1921.
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