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Chae Chan Ping v. United States, 130 U.S. 581 (1889), better known as the Chinese Exclusion Case, [1]: 30 was a case decided by the US Supreme Court on May 13, 1889, that challenged the Scott Act of 1888, an addendum to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. [2] [3] One of the grounds of the challenge was the Act ran afoul of the Burlingame Treaty ...
The Scott Act was a United States law that prohibited U.S. resident Chinese laborers from returning to the United States. Its main author was William Lawrence Scott of Pennsylvania, and it was signed into law by U.S. President Grover Cleveland on October 1, 1888.
Anti-Chinese legislation in the United States was introduced in the United States that targeted Chinese migrants following the California gold rush and those coming to build the railway, including: Anti-Coolie Act of 1862; Page Act of 1875; Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882; Pigtail Ordinance
As a part of a larger series of measures aimed to aid China’s morale as a U.S. ally, the U.S. Congress repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1943. For a brief period, Chinese immigrants to the ...
The Chinese Exclusion Act excluded Chinese laborers, meaning "skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining", from entering the country for ten years under penalty of imprisonment and deportation. [34] [35] Front page of The San Francisco Call from November 20, 1901, discussing the Chinese Exclusion Convention
Resentment against Asian immigrants in the U.S. grew with their population. Although American businesses had initially recruited Chinese immigrants as a cheap labor source in the emerging railroad and mining industries (and, in the Reconstruction South, to replace slaves on sugar plantations) by the late 19th century, fears of a largescale "Mongolian" plot to take land and resources from white ...
Texas Senate Bill 147, which would bar Chinese citizens from buying property, evokes for critics a history of anti-Asian discrimination facilitated by laws. ... "STOP Chinese Exclusion," evoking ...
The Chinese Exclusion Act, passed in 1882, is considered to be the first United States policy that restricted immigration, which had previously been allowed without constraint. [3] Following that pivotal piece of legislation, the administrations of William McKinley (1897-1901) and Theodore Roosevelt (1901-9) were characterized by an increase in ...