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The trend depicted in the graph most directly contributed to which of the following developments after 1920?

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This question refers to the following graph:

The trend depicted in the graph most directly contributed to which of the following developments after 1920?

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The question asks us to interpret the chart showing immigration to the United States by decade from 1821–1910 and identify the development after 1920 that the trend most directly contributed to.

First, consider what the graph demonstrates: gradual growth in immigrant numbers across the 19th century, with notable surges in the later decades (especially the 1881–1890 and 1901–1910 periods). Although the chart stops at 1910, these rising totals help explain attitudes and policy responses in the following decade.

Next, recall the historical context after 1920: a strong push in the U.S. to limit immigration, driven by concerns about cultural change, job competition, and nativist sentiment. Politically and legally, this culminated in restrictive immigration statutes enacted in the 1920s, most prominently the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924, which established numeric quotas and restricted immigration from many regions.

Now evaluate the provided option in light of this context. The trend toward higher immigration in the preceding decades contributed to the perceived need to regulate or curb entry, which is precisely what the post-1920 restrictions aimed to do. The growing numbers created social and political pressure to respond with policy changes limiting who could enter.

If there were other options, one would assess them similarly: options that incorrectly attribute post-1920 developments to factors unrelated to immigration levels (e.g., economic cycles unrelated to immigration policy, or developments not connected to federal regulation) would be less plausible.

In sum, the chart’s implication of rising immigration in earlier decades aligns with the historical move to impose formal restrictions on immigration after 1920, making the restriction policy the most compatible development described.

This question refers to the following graph: The trend depicted in the graph most directly contributed to which of the following developments after 1920?

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