APUSH Period 7 Documents
"The system of quotas....was the first major pillar of the Immigration Act of 1924. The second provided for the exclusion of persons ineligible to citizenship....Ineligibility to citizenship and exclusion applied to the peoples of all the nations of East and South Asia. Nearly all Asians had already been excluded from immigration....The exclusion of persons ineligible to citizenship in 1924....completed Asiatic exclusion....Moreover, it codified the principle of racial exclusion into the main body of American immigration and naturalization law." Mae M. Ngai, historian, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America, 2004 Which of the following evidence would best support Ngai's argument in the excerpt?
Census data showing the changing percentages of the foreign-born population from 1920 to 1930
"Excepting only Yosemite, Hetch Hetchy is the most attractive and wonderful valley within the bounds of the great Yosemite National Park and the best of all the camp grounds. People are now flocking to it in ever-increasing numbers for health and recreation of body and mind. Though the walls are less sublime in height than those of Yosemite, its groves, gardens, and broad, spacious meadows are more beautiful and picturesque.... Last year in October I visited the valley with Mr. William Keith, the artist. He wandered about from view to view, enchanted, made thirty-eight sketches, and enthusiastically declared that in varied picturesque beauty Hetch Hetchy greatly surpassed Yosemite. It is one of God's best gifts, and ought to be faithfully guarded." John Muir, Century Magazine, 1909 Which of the following aspects of Muir's description expresses a major change in Americans' views of the natural environment?
The idea that government should preserve wilderness areas in a natural state
"The peace-loving nations must make a concerted effort in opposition to those violations of treaties and those ignorings of humane instincts which today are creating a state of international anarchy and instability from which there is no escape through mere isolation or neutrality. "Those who cherish their freedom and recognize and respect the equal rights of their neighbors to be free and live in peace, must work together for the triumph of law and moral principles in order that peace, justice ad confidence may prevail in the world. There must be recognition of the fact that national morality is as vital as private morality." President Franklin Roosevelt, Quarantine Speech, 1937 Which of the following best represents continuity in the years after 1945 with the ideas that Roosevelt expressed in the excerpt?
United States membership in an international collective security organization
"The peace-loving nations must make a concerted effort in opposition to those violations of treaties and those ignorings of humane instincts which today are creating a state of international anarchy and instability from which there is no escape through mere isolation or neutrality. "Those who cherish their freedom and recognize and respect the equal right of their neighbors to be free and live in peace, must work together for the triumph of law and moral principles in order that peace, justice and confidence may prevail in the world. There must be recognition of the fact that national morality is as vital as private morality." President Franklin Roosevelt, Quarantine Speech, 1937 The ideas expressed in the excerpt differed from the prevailing United States approach to foreign policy issues primarily in that Roosevelt was
arguing to expand the role of the United States in the world
"The peace-loving nations must make a concerted effort in opposition to those violations of treaties and those ignorings of humane instincts which today are creating a state of international anarchy and instability from which there is no escape through mere isolation or neutrality. "Those who cherish their freedom and recognize and respect the equal right of their neighbors to be free and live in peace, must work together for the triumph of law and moral principles in order that peace, justice and confidence may prevail in the world. There must be a return to a belief in the pledged word, in the value of a signed treaty. There must be recognition of the fact that national morality is as vital as private morality." President Franklin Roosevelt, Quarantine Speech, 1937 The excerpt best reflects an effort by Roosevelt to
overcome opposition to participation in the impending Second World War
"The system of quotas....was the first major pillar of the Immigration Act of 1924. The second provided for the exclusion of persons ineligible to citizenship....Ineligibility to citizenship and exclusion applied to the peoples of all the nations of East and South Asia. Nearly all Asians had already been excluded from immigration....The exclusion of persons ineligible to citizenship in 1924....completed Asiatic exclusion....Moreover, it codified the principle of racial exclusion into the main body of American immigration and naturalization law." Mae M. Ngai, historian, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America, 2004 The Immigration Act of 1924 produced highly discriminatory results because it
placed restrictions on immigration by national origin, ethnicity, and race
"The system of quotas....was the first major pillar of the Immigration Act of 1924. The second provided for the exclusion of persons ineligible to citizenship....Ineligibility to citizenship and exclusion applied to the peoples of all the nations of East and South Asia. Nearly all Asians had already been excluded from immigration....The exclusion of persons ineligible to citizenship in 1924....completed Asiatic exclusion....Moreover, it codified the principle of racial exclusion into the main body of American immigration and naturalization law." Mae M. Ngai, historian, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America, 2004 The Immigration Act of 1924 most directly reflected
social tensions emerging from the First World War
