The Immigration Act of 1906
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You may apply these questions to the Immigration Act or the documents to the left.

What is the significance of this document?

What has changed and what has remained the same since this document was created?

How should we judge any of actors implicated in this document?

Has there been progress or decline since this document was created?

Who exercised agency in the historical situation of which this document is a trace?

What more would we like to know, in order to analyze this document?

What conditions/restrictions did the Immigration Act imposed on potential immigrants?

Would these conditions affect your character?