and the 1882 Immigration Act denied entry to "convicts (except those convicted of political offences), lunatics, idiots, and persons likely to become public charges." 8 An 1891 law refused entry ...

reforms conditions and practices of shipping procedures in Macao and Hong Kong 1882 U.S. President Chester Arthur signs the Chinese Exclusion Act, thus voiding 1868 Burlingame Treaty; Exclusion Act ...

Sadly, these workers often met only racism and discrimination, which was capped by the infamous Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. For the next sixty years, immigration from Asia to the United States ...

Wing also lobbied against the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which only the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut did not ratify. A political cartoon from The San Francisco Wasp advocating for the ...

The Page Act prefigured the near-total ban on Chinese immigration to the U.S. seven years later, with the Exclusion Act of 1882—the country’s first federal law to restrict a group on the basis ...