"The system of quotas . . . was the first major pillar of the Immigration Act of 1924. Thesecond provided for the exclusion of persons ineligible to citizenship. . . . Ineligibilityto citizenship and exclusion applied to the peoples of all the nations of East and SouthAsia. Nearly all Asians had already been excluded from immigration. . . . The exclusionof persons ineligible to citizenship in 1924 . . . completed Asiatic exclusion. . . . Moreover,it codified the principle of racial exclusion into the main body of American immigrationand naturalization law."Mae M. Ngai, historian, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and theMaking of Modern America, 200415. The Immigration Act of 1924 most directly reflected(A) cultural tensions between scientific modernism and religious fundamentalism inthe 1920s(B) conflicts arising from the migration of African Americans to urban centers inthe North(C) the emergence of an increasingly national culture in the 1920s shaped by art,cinema, and mass media(D) social tensions emerging from the First World War

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