jan 1, 1894 - Immigration Restriction League founded

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The Immigration Restriction League was founded by a group of professionals from Boston, including attorney Prescott F. Hall, climatologist Robert DeCourcy Ward, and lawyer Charles Warren. All three were Harvard graduates, nativists, and white supremacists. Specifically, they were concerned about immigration taking away jobs from Americans at a time of high unemployment. They called for barring the illiterate from the US, and lobbied the federal government to pass such a law. Congress attempted it in 1897, but it was vetoed by President Cleveland. The League disbanded after Hall's death in 1921.

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