may 6, 1882 - Chinese Exclusion Act
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A federal law that barred all immigration from China into the US and declared that no Chinese immigrant would be eligible for citizenship. The original law lasted for ten years, but was renewed for another decade in 1892 and made permanent in 1902. As a result, immigration from China to the US (primarily California) was drastically reduced. It was replaced by the Magnuson Act in 1943, which allowed a small number of Chinese (105) to immigrate every year. Immigration eventually increased in 1952, when racial barriers for immigration were abolished.
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