The Immigration Act of 1917 (Asiatic Barred Zone Act)
The Immigration Act of 1917 barred a majority of remaining East Asian and Pacific Islander ethnicities, also prohibiting "immigrants unable to meet certain mental, physical, economical,…moral…, as well as political standards…" (Wright 82). Furthermore, the act instated literacy tests for all immigrants over the age of sixteen.
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Congress's bill for this act, vetoed one time each by Presidents Cleveland, Taft, and Wilson, was eventually enacted over Wilson's second veto.
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