C. Abraham Lincoln was the president who made it a priority to complete the transcontinental railroad.
Answer:
1: D
2: C
3: B
4: C
Explanation:
1: "I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire."
2: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
3: " ...was still in conversation with its Government and its Emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific...And while this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or of armed attack."
4: "It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago."
Answer:
The National Origins Act restricted the number of immigrants from any given country to 2 percent of the number of current Americans from that country
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Explanation:
The Immigration Act of 1924, including the National Origins Act, was a federal law in the United States that restricted immigration from each country to 2% of the number from the same country that lived in the United States at the 1890 census, in instead of 3% as in the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921.
The law was mainly aimed at restricting immigration from southern Europe and eastern Europe, many Jews fled from persecution in Poland and Russia, and the wave of immigration had been going on since the 1890s, as well as from the Middle East, East Asia and India.
