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may 6, 1882 - Chinese Exclusion Act

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Meant to curb the influx of Chinese immigrants to the United States, particularly California, The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 suspended Chinese immigration for ten years and declared Chinese immigrants ineligible for naturalization. Big nativist ideas, continual discrimination to and through World War II.

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Date:

may 6, 1882
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~ 143 years ago