Responding to xenophobic concerns, Congress passed an emergency law restricting immigration in 1921. Among other provisions, the Act established a quota (a proportional share of a total) for nationalities on the basis of their numbers in the U.S. in 1910.
The missing detail is: a quota.
In the president Lincolns speech at the dedication of the military cemetery at Gellysburg he stated that the outcome of the war would be a "new birth of freedom. He addressed about a new nation on this continent conceived in a liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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The story of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School begins with a brief introduction to its founder. Richard Henry Pratt spent eight years (1867-1875) in Indian Territory as an officer of the 10th Cavalry, commanding a unit of African-American "Buffalo Soldiers" and Indian Scouts. During this time, he was stationed at Ft. Sill, OK, 60 miles east of the site of the Battle of the Whitewash where Black Kettle (Cheyenne) was eliminated 1867.
