National Origins Formula

(noun)

An American system of immigration quotas, between 1921 and 1965, which restricted immigration on the basis of existing proportions of the population; its goal was to maintain the existing ethnic composition of the United States, giving low quotas to Eastern and Southern Europe.

Related Terms

  • Dillingham Commission
  • Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
  • xenophobia
  • immigration
  • Immigration Act of 1924

(noun)

The National Origins Formula was a system of quotas, established between 1921 and 1965, that restricted immigration based on existing population proportions. Its goal was to maintain the existing ethnic composition of the U.S. and kept quotas low for Eastern and Southern Europe.

Related Terms

  • Dillingham Commission
  • Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
  • xenophobia
  • immigration
  • Immigration Act of 1924

Examples of National Origins Formula in the following topics:

  • The Immigration Act of 1965

    • The Act abolished the National Origins Formula, which had been in place since the Immigration Act of 1924.
    • The National Origins Formula had set immigration quotas for specific countries, effectively giving preference to Northern and Western Europe over Eastern Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa.
    • This national origins quota system was viewed as an embarrassment by, among others, President John F.
    • The National Origins Formula was replaced with a preference system based on immigrants' skills and family relationships with U.S. citizens or residents.
    • Numerical restrictions on visas were set at 170,000 per year and per country-of-origin, not including immediate relatives of U.S. citizens or "special immigrants" (including those born in "independent" nations in the Western Hemisphere; former citizens; ministers; and employees of the U.S. government abroad).
  • Toward Immigration Restriction

    • In his response to Congress, Cleveland stated, “The best reason that could be given for this radical restriction of immigration is the necessity of protecting our population against degeneration and saving our national peace and quiet from imported turbulence and disorder.
    • Influenced by Madison Grant's 1916 pro-Eugenics book, The Passing of the Great Race, nativists grew increasingly concerned with America’s ethnic purity and what Grant argued was the dilution of the national racial stock by an influx of new immigrants from the Mediterranean, the Balkans and the Polish ghettos.
    • In the 1920s, a large national consensus fueled by fears of low-skilled immigrants flooding the labor market helped sharply curtail the overall inflow of newcomers accepted to the United States.
    • The widespread acceptance of racist ideology and labor concerns led to a reduction in Southern and Eastern European immigrants being codified in the National Origins Formula of the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, which capped new immigrants at 3% of the number of people in that same ethnic group already in the United States.
    • Additionally, the Great Depression raised economics over ethnic purification in the hierarchy of national concerns.
  • Analysis of Molecular Formulas

    • Although structural formulas are essential to the unique description of organic compounds, it is interesting and instructive to evaluate the information that may be obtained from a molecular formula alone.
    • The origin of this formula is evident by considering a hydrocarbon made up of a chain of carbon atoms.
    • The molecular formula is C4H10 (the maximum number of bonded hydrogens by the 2n + 2 rule).
    • All halogens present in the molecular formula must be replaced by hydrogen.
    • Each nitrogen in the formula must be replaced by a CH moiety.
  • National Convention

    • The 2004 Democratic National Convention counted 4,353 delegates and 611 alternates.
    • The 2004 Republican National Convention had 2,509 delegates and 2,344 alternates.
    • Due to changes in election laws, the primary and caucus calendar, and the manner in which political campaigns are run, conventions since the latter half of the 20th century have virtually abdicated their original roles, and are today mostly ceremonial affairs.
    • Generally, usage of "presidential nominating convention" refers to the two major parties' quadrennial events: the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention .
    • The 2004 Republican National Convention had 2,509 delegates and 2,344 alternates.
  • Black-Scholes Formula

    • The Black-Scholes formula is a way of pricing a European option.
    • The model was originally presented in a 1973 paper by Fischer Black and Myron Scholes who eventually received a Nobel Prize for their work in 1997.
    • The Black-Scholes formula, despite not being 100% accurate, is used because it is:
    • reversible, as the model's original output, price, can be used as an input and one of the other variables solved for; the implied volatility calculated in this way is often used to quote option prices
    • The Black-Scholes formula applies only to equity derivatives, however.
  • Introduction to Nation-States

    • Although the definition, origins, and early history of nation state are disputed, nation state remains one of the central categories of the modern world.
    • However, nationalists and, consequently, symbolic narratives of the origins and history of nation states often continue to exclude minorities from the nation state and the nation.
    • The origins and early history of nation states are disputed.
    • First, "Which came first, the nation or the nation state?"
    • The most obvious impact of the nation state, as compared to its non-national predecessors, is the creation of a uniform national culture through state policy.
  • Calculating Present Value

    • If the interest is simple interest, you plug the numbers into the simple interest formula.
    • If it is compound interest, you can rearrange the compound interest formula to calculate the present value.
    • If you happen to be using a program like Excel, the interest is compounded in the PV formula.
    • Simple interest is when interest is only paid on the amount you originally invested (the principal).
    • Distinguish between the formula used for calculating present value with simple interest and the formula used for present value with compound interest
  • Selecting Candidates

    • The Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee create the rules governing the caucuses and primaries in which the field of presidential nominees is narrowed.
    • The presidential candidates of the two major political parties in the United States are formally confirmed during the Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention.
    • The size of each delegation depends upon the unique formula used by a given political party.
    • Such formulas usually consider the population of a given state, the state's previous presidential voting patterns, and the number of Congressional representatives or government officials in a state who are members of the party.
    • Bush and Dick Cheney were declared the official presidential and vice presidential candidates at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
  • Yalta and the Postwar World

    • The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.
    • Furthermore, the Soviets had agreed to join the United Nations, given the secret understanding of a voting formula with a veto power for permanent members of the Security Council, thus ensuring that each country could block unwanted decisions.
    • Also, the "Big Three" agreed that all original governments would be restored to the invaded countries (with the exception of France, Romania, and Bulgaria; the Polish government-in-exile was also excluded by Stalin) and that all civilians would be repatriated.
    • Roosevelt obtained a commitment by Stalin to participate in the United Nations.
    • Its purpose was to decide whether Germany was to be divided into six nations.
  • Learning from GDP

    • There are two commonly used measures of national income and output in economics, these include gross domestic product (GDP) and gross national product (GNP).
    • The output approach focuses on finding the total output of a nation by directly finding the total value of all goods and services a nation produces.
    • The income approach equates the total output of a nation to the total factor income received by residents or citizens of the nation.
    • Formula: GDI (gross domestic income, which should equate to gross domestic product) = Compensation of employees + Net interest + Rental & royalty income + Business cash flow
    • The basic formula for domestic output takes all the different areas in which money is spent within the region, and then combines them to find the total output .
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