Did the U.S. Immigration Act of 1924 Contribute to the Rise of a Militarist Dictatorship in Japan?
The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the National Origins Act, Asian Exclusion Act. It superseded the 1921 Emergency Quota Act. While it is true that the Immigration Act of 1924, AKA the Johnson-Reed Act, did include the Asian Exclusion Act, it was more importantly the National Origins Act, the act was a United States federal law that limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, down from the 3% cap set by the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, according to the Census of 1890. The greatest focus of the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921 was to restrict Southern and Eastern Europeans, Asian Indians, and East Asians. The Asians targeted were Asian Indians, West Asians and Chinese. It must be understood that the act was not targeted to effect Japanese immigrants, nor were that many Japanese immigrants to limit at that time. The limitati
