a radical group that created conspiracy theories of immigrants and wanted to do away with immigration completely. In 1887, the Immigration Restriction League was also created. A group of five Harvard alumni fought to get literacy testing, immigrant screening, and other standards to separate the desirable from the undesirable. These organization had a great impact because in 1896 Congress tried to pass a literacy test, but it failed. Henry Cabot Lodge, a nativist, was a strong supporter for the literacy test at this time along with Theodore Roosevelt. In Congressional Record on March 16, 1896, Lodge wrote about the proposed literacy test and how it would allow the wealthier and more intelligent immigrants into the country, " …. It also appears from investigations which have been made that the immigrants who would be shut out…are those who bring least money to the country, and come most quickly upon private or public charity for support." In 1906 there was a great influx of Japanese immigrants in California, and the San Francisco School Board ordered all Orientals to attend a segregated school. This order for segregation was quickly undone after the Japanese government complained to President Roosevelt. He was able to negotiate for the Gentleman’s Act of 1907 which made it so the Japanese government would not issue passports to Japanese laborers intending to enter the U.S. In 1917 Congress passed an immigration law that imposed a literacy test, which made it so intelligent immigrants were allowed into the country. In 1921, the Emergency Immigration Act was passed. This act made it so the number of aliens of any nationality admitted to the U.S. in a year could not exceed 3 percent of the number of foreign-born residents of that nationality living in the U.S. in 1910. Even though this heavily cut down the number of immigrants entering the country, the majority of the immigrants were "new immigrants." This led to the Natio...
