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The emergency quota act allowed only a certain amount of people from each country to enter the U.S. per year. The emergency quota act allowed only a certain amount of people (3%) from each country to enter the U.S. per year. In other words, it set quotas on Immigration into the United States.

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The Emergency Quota Act is also known as the Emergency Immigration act, and limited the amount of immigrants admitted to only 3% the 1910 Census figures of the population. This was enacted due to the major flood of immigrants that had happened, and the negative effects it had on wage.

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set a quota on how many immigrants could enter the u.s (per country based on the census of 1890

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To increase the number of women in the workforce

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