What Is the Dillingham Act

Immigration Act of 1918. Other short titles. Dillingham-Hardwick Act. Long title. An Act to exclude and expel from the United States aliens who are members of the anarchistic and similar classes.

What was the goal of the Dillingham Commission?

Analysis. “The Dillingham commission’s work . . . produced forty-one volumes of reports, summarized in a brief but potent set of recommendations that was far more restrictive than its own evidence supported. Within a decade, almost all of these policy initiatives were implemented into law . . .

What was the purpose of the Immigration Act of 1917?

The Immigration Act of 1917 (also known as the Literacy Act and less often as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act) was a United States Act that aimed to restrict immigration by imposing literacy tests on immigrants, creating new categories of inadmissible persons, and barring immigration from the Asia-Pacific zone.