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AP U.S. History Diagnostic 21. The passage of the law in the excerpt was likely influenced in part by what?

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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour Brought to you

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by the league of nations The dulles superhero group of

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fall time Remember that one boring All right here's the

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excerpt It was like super friends They had legal things

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Everything was a utilitarian perspective like that All right dunn

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Emergency quota law in nineteen twenty one And the question

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the passage of the law and the excerpt was likely

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influenced in part by what And here your potential answer

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Thank you very sweetly And they had wonder woman aquaman

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and superman and batman all right after the first world

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war the united states was in a big old panic

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about foreign influence is stirring up trouble here at home

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The government officials past a bunch of laws restricting immigration

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like the one in the excerpt let's See which answer

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best explains why they decided all of a sudden you

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close those doors of opportunity was the passage of the

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law in the excerpt influenced by a america's victory in

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the spanish american war huh Well this law was passed

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in nineteen twenty one and the spanish american war was

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fought in eighteen ninety eight so we're about twenty years

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Off with this one could this log have been influenced

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by sea The united states failure to join the league

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of nations like from the super friends Well after world

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war one forty two countries formed the league of nations

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an intergovernmental group tasked with making sure everyone played nice

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with each other in the playground If the u s

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had joined its immigration policies might have been a little

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more thoughtful but the law was not necessarily influenced by

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the country's failure to participate in the group So that

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knocks out c too was the passage of the emergency

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quota act affected by d the demands of big business

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leaders Well actually all this isolation when against the desires

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of big business leaders who were more than happy to

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include cheap immigrant labor on their payroll So it's not

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d either which means that the emergency quota act was

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influenced in part by b post war labor strikes and

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fears of communism As workers started to organize against their

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employers government officials worried that the arrival of communist sympathizers

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would only add fuel to the growing fire So they

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restricted immigration to prevent them from coming at all So

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be is the right answer And man between names like

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the red scare and that fire metaphor the cold war 00:02:17.533 --> [endTime] doesn't sound so cold anymore Oh snap

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