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Robert Clancy's Immigration Act Of 1924

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Robert H. Clancy, a Republican congressman from Detroit, Michigan who attended the University of Michigan. He was one of the six persons who voted against the approval of the Immigration Act of 1924. During Clancy’s speech on April 8, 1924 he addressed the Congress, in particular the people who voted for the ratification of the Immigration Act of 1924, which was May 26, 1924. First and foremost, the Immigration Act of 1924 limited the amount of immigrants allowed into the United States due to the fear of radicalism, especially after the Red Scare of 1919 occurred when the anarchists bombed the United States. The Americans who supported the, so called Johnson-Reed Act believed that Anglo-Saxton superiority and the jobs meant for Americans

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