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  • A map of the states, boundaries, and capital cities of the United States, along with the bodies of water and other counties surrounding the U.S.
    In United States: Immigration

    …at 150,000) and established the national-origins system, which was to characterize immigration policy for the next 40 years. Under it, quotas were established for each country based on the number of persons of that national origin who were living in the United States in 1920. The quotas reduced drastically the…

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