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The Immigration Act of 1924, otherwise known as Johnson–Reed Act, was a federal law passed to exclude immigrants from around the world. They set quotas to the number of immigrants that attempted to join the United States, only taking 2% of the US population census recorded in 1890. Other than the fact that the United States wanted to preserve homogeneity, they also wanted to prevent the spread of communism from eastern Europe. After World War I, Russia was split politically for those who were communists and anti-communists. Eventually, this tension led to several civil wars, in which the United States was aware about. Knowing that many countries surrounding Russia and Russia itself was trying to spread their political ideas, the United States decided to limit the amount of immigrants from the western hemisphere. As a consequence of the act, it is natural for countries to develop a terrible relationship, due to the fact that the act was very restrictive and some people couldn't travel, even if they wanted to. However, it is believed to be known that the global depression of World War I prevented countries from hate on the United States. This was probably because the countries that were involved in the war were so fed up with the economic turmoil, that people couldn't afford to even travel to other countries. The United States also couldn’t focus on immigration for many of the European and Asian countries with so many problems to worry about in their country. The Immigration Act of 1924 impacts science because science in the United States is built on immigrants. Any kind of data retrieved from science is tested through people with different cultural backgrounds and ideas. One of the articles from Chemical and Engineering News states that, after President Trump banned six countries from immigrating to the United States, "the negative political talk about immigration appears to be having an effect: the number of international applicants to study at US colleges and universities has declined two years in a row" (Widener). This example comes to show that these types of data are being affected by the number immigrants in the United States and could keep getting lower. With the Immigration Act denying almost every immigrant to the United States, the date or the science is being impacted negatively.