The decrease of immigration during early American history is a result from the 1882 Act to Regulate Immigration, a required literacy test for entry of the United States, and the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924.

Summary: This document is a hand written letter to congress. It talks about how first-hand eugenical studies made and reported to Congress. The reason for this was to aid in the framing and the enactment of legislation for immigration-control.

Primary Source Analysis: Based on this, its safe to make the assumption that congress would take information from researchers to make decisions on legislation on these certain issues. This can be proven by the line "This purpose was to aid in the framing and the enactment of legislation for immigration-control based on sound and patriotic eugenical policy".

“Classification standards”, by Harry H. Laughlin
This document was in the Harry H. Laughlin Papers, at Truman State University and the topic was mental illness and how the argument that was made was to show how a disproportionate number of immigrants were insane. By the 20th century people with mental disorders were wards if the state and eugenicists argued that their care was a growing burden on society and the community they live in. In this source, a statement that was said was that “Mental patients made good subjects for eugenic study in state institutions, where eugenics case workers could interview them and obtain their family records.” This article was to show that the burden is growing and how mentally unstable people are more common to be immigrants and “feeblemindedness” was considered the most important mental disorder by eugenicists”
The article supports what the author is trying to say, due to the pictures of statistics within this newspaper and during this time this was a credible source for people to get information.

Harry. H. Laughlin was a leading American eugenicist, the first half of the 20th century. He was the superintendent of the eugenics record office from its inception in 1910 to its closing in 1939. His motives were seemed to be in this article that immigrants were more mentally unstable and he was being extremely racists. The person writing was writing during this time and the author experienced it as it was continuing. The authors argument was that mental illness and be unstable was more common in immigrants and that they were becoming a burden on society. This source is significant because it showed what many people believed in and how they thought of immigrants during this time. This article was bias, but so are many sources and it was opinioned but many people thought of this newspaper as credible so many believed it