 The report highly influenced public opinion around the introduction of legislation to limit immigration and can be seen to have played an integral part in the adoption of the 1921 Emergency Quota Act and subsequent Johnson Reed Act of 1924.In 1800, the American population was about 5 million, by 1914, migration had led to a further 50 million people in the country.The Population had amassed to a total of 77 million, 14 years earlier, in 1900.