may 6, 1882 - Chinese
Exclusion Act
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Signed by President Arthur, this act was the first law that prevented a specific ethnic group to migrate to America. This is significant because this is the first time that the U.S. has actually denied a group of people based on their ethnicity which is very racist and this was supposed to last only 10 years but lasted until 1946.
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