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Free Download Kristofer Allerfeldt, "Race, Radicalism, Religion, and Restriction: Immigration in the Pacific Northwest, 1890-1924"
English | 2003 | pages: 248 | ISBN: 0275978540 | PDF | 12,5 mb
In 1924 America passed legislation that effectively outlined which immigrants were to be considered beneficial to the national body and which were not. Albert Johnson, a Washington State Congressman, sponsored the Act. This study examines the role of the Pacific Northwest in the change of national sentiment that led up to this legislation. Throughout the period, this region experienced massive growth in its immigrant population. Its forests and small towns were the scenes of many clashes with the alien radicals, resulting in the creation of anti-Catholic legislation and the laws against land ownership by the Japanese. Analyzing issues of race, religion, and political radicalism, Allerfeldt determines that the region was highly influential in the national debate.