Chinese+Exclusion+Act

=__ Chinese Exclusion Act: __= =The Chinese Exclusion Act was approved on May 6, 1882. It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. = =In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. = =This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. =

==[|Chinese Exclusion Act] ==

** The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first major law that disabled immigration to the United States. The Chinese Exclusion Act, was official on May 6, 1882, by President Chester A. Arthur. He stopped Chinese immigration for ten years and wouldnt let Chinese become US citizens. Through the Geary Act of 1892, the law was extended for ten more years before it went permanent in 1902. The Chinese Exclusion act was to eliminate Chinese from migrating to the United States. The government felt that Chinese laborers were a threat. The law said that for the next ten years the Chinese laborers weren't able to come into the United States. If people were caught bringing Chinese immigrants into the country they would be fined five hundred dollars per person that was brought in, or they would send them to prison, but not exceeding a year. All of the Chinese laborers that came in the U.S. after November 17, 1880 were deported. All the Chinese that were in then U.S. before, were registered and given birth certificates that had their names, age, occupation, physical markings on their bodies and more. **
 * Chinese immigration / by Mary Roberts Coolidge. [|Chinese Immigration] 1909 **


 * Amendment of the Chinese Exclusion Act : speech of Hon. William Everett, of Massachusetts, in the House of Representatives [|Amendment Chinese Act] Saturday, Octorber 14, 1893 **


 * Exclusion of Chinese and other Asiatics : speech of Hon. E.A. Hayes, of California, in the House of Representatives [|Speech Exclusion Act]  February 25, 1909 **

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 * [|Chinese Immigrants and Nativism] You Tube Video**


 * The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first major ethnic group immigration exclusion policy in the U.S. The Act states that “in the opinion of the Government of the United States the coming of Chinese laborers to this country endangers the good order of certain localities within the territory (. . .)." **


 * The Chinese Exclusion Act also required Chinese “non-laborers” in China who wanted to enter the U.S. to get certification from the Chinese government that made them qualified to migrate. The Chinese experienced difficulty legally proving that they were not laborers because the exclusion act defined excludable as “skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining.” From this, very few Chinese could enter the country under the 1882 law. The Chinese already in the U.S. also had new requirements under the 1882 act. The act says that if they left the United States, they needed to have a "re-entry" certificate. Congress also refused State and Federal courts the right to grant citizenship to Chinese resident aliens. These courts still had the legal power to deport Chinese from the U.S. The exclusion act expired in 1892, but through the Geary Act, Congress had extended it for 10 years. This extension (made permanent by a Congressional action in 1902) added restrictions to every Chinese resident in the U.S. and the need for a certificate of residency to avoid legal action and deportation.The Chinese Exclusion Act was the law of the land until Congress finally ended it in 1943. **



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