How long was the initial Chinese Exclusion Act intended to last in the U.S.?
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The act followed the Angell Treaty of 1880, a set of revisions to the US–China Burlingame Treaty of 1868 that allowed the US to suspend Chinese immigration.
The act was initially intended to last for 10 years, but was renewed in 1892 with the Geary Act and made permanent in 1902. The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law implemented to prevent a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the United States. It was repealed by the Magnuson Act on December 17, 1943.
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Ramrod
Kind of figured this would inflame. It is what it is. Call it anything you want but at the end of the day it is still racism in acrtion
Scott
Systemic chinaism...today’s label for so called oppression of any small group vis a vis the white American group, come on man get in touch with “ reality”...
osborntd
Racism Had NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS FACTOR. ignorant Fools. Read Your History without being Bias to Racism.
Kathleen Hartshorne
Racism for sure.
Corey Taylor
Vince Savage, Today it would be considered intelligent anti-communism! By intelligent people.
Ruth Andrews
Why pick the Chinese, there must have been other immigrant labourors
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