Which group was most likely to support the 'Immigration Restriction League' founded in 1894?
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Correct answer: Upper-class nativists who favored literacy tests
The League was founded by Harvard graduates who believed that 'New Immigrants' were racially inferior. They pushed for literacy tests as a way to filter out those from Southern and Eastern Europe.
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