Which statement best describes the effect of the Walter-McCarran Act on citizenship in 1952?(1 point)

Question

It created a policy for naturalizing White Europeans.
It made Indigenous peoples automatically citizens because they preexisted in America before the United Sta
It made all Black Americans citizens for the first time.
It nullified all previous laws that had denied Asian Americans naturalized citizenship.

Answer 1

The statement that best describes the effect of the Walter-McCarran Act on citizenship in 1952 is: It nullified all previous laws that had denied Asian Americans naturalized citizenship.

The Walter-McCarran Act, officially known as the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, aimed to consolidate and revise immigration and naturalization laws and ultimately allowed for the naturalization of Asian immigrants, addressing some of the previous discriminatory laws.