Review the time line on the history of immigration law.

According to the time line, which group was prevented from gaining US citizenship until the 1940s?

immigrants
Puerto Ricans
Asian Americans
formerly enslaved people

Respuesta :

Answer:

Asian Americans.

Explanation:

A Cold War measure, the 1952 Immigration Act formally ended Asian exclusion as a feature of U.S. immigration policy, even as it strengthened the powers of the federal government to detain and prosecute suspected subversives. The Act allotted nominal immigration quotas to Japan and the rest of Asia, but the racial basis of these quotas limited their actual impact. It also eliminated race as a basis for naturalization, making Japanese and other foreign-born Asians eligible to become American citizens for the first time. Highly controversial, the McCarran-Walter Act had to overcome widespread opposition and a presidential veto before taking effect in June 1952.