Read the excerpt from "How the Immigrants Who Came to Ellis Island in 1907 Compare to Arrivals Today": The U. S. tried to reduce this type of immigration with the 1924 Immigration Act, which introduced numerical caps or quotas based on country of origin. These quotas gave enormous preference to people from northern and western Europe
over those from southern and eastern parts of the continent. But despite intense fears that the latter type of immigrants could never really be American, they and their
descendants became an important part of the country.
What information is NOT explicitly stated in the excerpt?
The United States set quotas on immigrants from Europe.
The 1924 Immigration Act tried to limit immigration into the United States.
European immigrants became an important part of American culture.
The 1924 Immigration Act helped immigrants integrate into the United States.

Read this passage from “the fall of the house of usher.” which element of gothic literature is not obvious in this passage? as if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. it was the work of the rushing gust—but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady madeline of usher. there was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. for a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold—then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated. bleak or remote settings supernatural or otherworldly elements macabre or violent incidents strong language full of dangerous meaning