Hard to believe it was only forty years until 1965.
Led to WWII...
https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5077
Up to that point relations between America and Japan were cordial. Both were Allies during WWI. But Japan’s reaction set it on a path that ultimately led to Pearl Harbor.
The quota system in the 1924 law discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe (Italians, Greeks, Poles, etc.)...against those nationalities which had immigrated mostly after 1890. It meant that when Jews in the 1930s wanted to escape from Nazi Germany very few were allowed into the US. One of my professors, an Austrian Jew, now 89 years old, was able to immigrate with his family only because a relative already in the US sponsored them.
Silent Cal was Da Man!
Our PDJT, The GOAT, would do well to follow some of Cal’s ways.
I spent a few years looking at that period and would search on eBay for old magazine articles about the fight, it was a many years intense battle.
The largely Catholic immigrants that had started coming in since the 1840s had been moving the country left and taking over the cities with unionism and socialism, corruption, and just general liberalism.