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The Page Act of 1875 (Sect. 141, 18 Stat. 477, 3 March 1875) was the first restrictive federal immigration law in the United States, which effectively prohibited the entry of Chinese women, marking the end of open borders. [1] [2] Seven years later, the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act banned immigration by Chinese men as well.
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Under the heading "Factors that influenced the creation of the Page Act", the second sentence of the first paragraph states "The California State Legislature assumed that Chinese men were forced to work under long-term service contracts, when in reality immigrants to America were not coolies, but borrowed money from brokers for their trip and ...
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