Chinese+Exclusion+Act

Definiton ** Any of several acts forbidding the immigration of chinese laborers into the United States.
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The Chinese exclusion act was a way for the Chinese people to express their right to be noticed. The Chinese immigrations set off for americans to escape the economic depression in thier homeland. Once they arrived in the United States, they made a living working primarily as manual laborers. But as mining activity and railroad building began to decline more tensions began to arose between the pre-exiting American population and the Chinese Immigrant communities. American labor unions became highly non-friendly against the Chinese immigrant laborers, accusing them of driving down wages. Politicians who were eager to obtain votes supported for the workers rights and pushed for an immigration to prohibit them from entering. Congress finally taken back the immigrastion ban in 1943 when China became a key the U.S. united in Asia during World War II. This Chinese Exclusion Act marks a dark point in the U.S. history that nobody seemed to care about what was accually happening back in there times as the years went on....

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