George Moseley (right) testifies before the Dies Committee on May 31, 1939. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

The Crisis Years

The Roaring Twenties ended with a tremendous economic collapse which lasted for more than a decade. But all was not lost. Old-stock American patriots had been able to enact the 1924 Immigration Act, which cut off immigration and protected the demographic makeup of the country for the following 40 years.