Johnson-Reed Immigration Act of 1924 is adopted in Washington, D.C.

The law includes the Asian Exclusion Act, which extends the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 by denying citizenship to “alien Orientals.” It also includes the National Origins Act, which cuts immigration to the U.S. from a 700,000 by establishing a total quota of 165,000 and quotas for each country based on their percentage of the U.S. in 1890, ensuring that henceforth 90% of new immigrants come from northern and western Europe. The quota system remains much the same until 1965.*