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Melani1276 · **on:** Aug 9, 2018

What is the connection between ideas about race in the 1920s and U.S. immigration policy during the decade?

A) Immigrants arrived in large numbers because of relaxed ideas about race.
B) The U.S. immigration service prevented Europeans but not Asians from arriving.
C) Congress acted on racist ideas to pass very restrictive immigration laws.
D) The President of the United States opened the U.S. border to free Mexican immigration.

Question 2

What is true about academic studies and academic views of race in the 1920s?

A) Many scholars and writers were beginning to denounce ideas of white supremacy.
B) Scholars published books warning that immigrants and people of color were diluting the white race.
C) Many academic reports were beginning to accept that blacks and whites were equal.
D) Academic studies tended to avoid controversy during the 1920s, especially regarding issues of race.