Question

What is the significance of the Immigration Act of 1965? It pardoned immigrants who had broken immigration laws. It eliminated the national origins quotas. It discriminated against Southern and Eastern Europeans.

Answer 1

The correct answer is: It eliminated the national origins quotas.

Indeed, until then, American immigration laws restricted immigration from Africa and Asia and favored immigration from northern and western Europe over immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe.

Many domestic and international activists were vehemently opposed to such policies that were considered as discrimination on the basis of national origin. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the act at the site of the Statue of Liberty in 1965.