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Chapter : 7 : The Decline of Immigration

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The Decline of Immigration

Some historians believe that even without the imposition of restriction laws, immigration would have declined after World War I. The full provisions of the Johnson-Reed Act did not take hold until 1929, but before then it was clear that the mass movement of people from Europe was over. The devastation of the war, the imposition of travel restrictions by several of the repressive new governments of eastern Europe, and an end to the population growth that had fueled immigration all pointed to the exhaustion of the explosive "push" factors that had existed for decades. The new restrictive laws and the end of economic prosperity in ...

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