The Dark History of the Chinese Exclusion Act

2021 6 min English Yijia Cao, Mohammad Babakoohi

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Overview

In 1882, the United States Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, the law that restricted immigration based explicitly on nationality. In practice, the Act banned entry to anyone who was Chinese.

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