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The Geary Act was a United States law that extended the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 by adding onerous new requirements. It was written by California Representative Thomas J. Geary and was passed by Congress on May 5, 1892 .
The Geary Act of 1892, an extension of the Chinese Exclusion Act, denied U.S. citizenship to Chinese immigrants. The Act required Chinese residents to carry residence certificates issued by the federal government to prove they entered the country legally. Section 4 of the Act of 1892 provides: [1]
Fong Yue Ting v. United States, 149 U.S. 698 (1893), decided by the United States Supreme Court on May 15, 1893, was a case challenging provisions in Section 6 of the Geary Act of 1892 that extended and amended the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
The legislation, which was set to expire after a decade, was then extended through the Geary Act. And while the measure was repealed on Dec. 17, 1943 with the Magnuson Act, immigration was still ...
The act followed the Angell Treaty of 1880, a set of revisions to the US–China Burlingame Treaty of 1868 that allowed the US to suspend Chinese immigration. The act was initially intended to last for 10 years, but was renewed and strengthened in 1892 with the Geary Act and made permanent in 1902. These laws attempted to stop all Chinese ...
Representative Geary and wrote and sponsored the Geary Act, a United States law passed by Congress on May 5, 1892, that extended the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. It added onerous new requirements, such as requiring every Chinese resident of the United States to carry a resident permit at all times.
The four-person police force of Geary, a town of about 1,000 some 50 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, quit en masse Thursday with little explanation, and two members of the city council also ...
Chinese Exclusion Act – (United States) China exclusion policy of NASA, 2011 – (United States) Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 – Chinese Immigration Act, 1923 – Definitions of whiteness in the United States; Eugenics in the United States; Geary Act; Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965; Magnuson Act