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Emergency Quota Act
The Emergency Quota Act ended most immigration from outside the Americas and created an ethnic quota system for admitting immigrants to the United States.
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National Origins Act of 1924
The National Origins Act refined the immigration quota system, created by the 1921 Emergency Quota Act, to favor northern and western European immigration over southern and eastern European immigration.