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American efforts to restrict immigration from 1850´s to the xenophobic US Immigration Act of 1923, which essentially stopped Immigration the US until post World War II. The reader sees the rise of xenophobic groups: Ku Klux Klan, Eugenics movement, Numerous Xenophobic groups. Subject matter includes: Nativism; The First Jewish Immigrants to the United States; German-Jewish Immigration - 1820-1880; Immigration Act of 1875; The Great Russian Jewish Immigration in 1881-1914; Pahlen Commission in 1894; Hepburn Congressional investigation, 1890; The Immigration Act of 1891; Anti-German Antipathy; Anti-Catholic Antipathy; Italian American Bias; Gentlemen´s Agreement of 1907; The Immigration Act of 1907; 1911 Congressional Testimony; Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1921; Eugenics Movement; Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1924; Effects of Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1924.

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Finkle, Arthur L.
ARTHUR L. FINKLE is a mediator, writer, educator and historian. Listed in Marquis´ Who´s Who; Who´s Who in Government; Who´s Who in American Education; and Who´s Who in American Law, he has authored eleven books; several book chapters and numerous professional articles. He graduated from The Wharton Graduate School and is a Phi Beta Kappa.

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