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Anti-Chinese legislation in the United States was introduced in the United States that targeted Chinese migrants following the California gold rush and those coming to build the railway, including: Anti-Coolie Act of 1862; Page Act of 1875; Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882; Pigtail Ordinance
The Page Act of 1875 (Sect. 141, 18 Stat. 477, 3 March 1875) was the first restrictive federal immigration law in the United States, which effectively prohibited the entry of Chinese women, marking the end of open borders. [1] [2] Seven years later, the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act banned immigration by Chinese men as well.
The anti-Chinese cartoon of The Chinese Must Go (1886) In response the rising anti-Chinese sentiment and labor agitation of White workers during economic recessions, a series of exclusion laws targeted at Chinese were passed from the 1870s to 1890s, such as Page Act of 1875, Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, and the Geary Act
It eliminated all immigration from all of geographical Asia. The Chinese Exclusion Act was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in U.S. history. The Act excluded Chinese "skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining" from entering the country for ten years under penalty of imprisonment and deportation.
The first page of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. In 1868, the Qing government appointed an American Anson Burlingame as their emissary to the United States. Burlingame toured the U.S. building support for equitable treatment for China and for Chinese emigrants. The 1868 Burlingame Treaty embodied these principles.
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[27] [35] Many of the latter came illegally into the United States and are employed in restaurants and clothing sweatshops managed by fellow Chinese Americans who take advantage of them. [7] Other Chinese Americans took on jobs during the 1990s dot-com boom. [12] Of the latest wave of arrivals, there were over 40,000 Chinese adoptees. [29]
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