USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. Many Americans on the West Coast attributed declining wages and economic ills to Chinese workers.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -The basic exclusion law prohibited Chinese labourers-defined as “both skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining”-from entering the country. Subsequent amendments to the law prevented Chinese labourers who had left the United States from returning.

Detailed explanation-4: -This act was the first significant restriction on free immigration in U.S. history, and it excluded Chinese laborers from the country under penalty of imprisonment and deportation. It also made Chinese immigrants permanent aliens by excluding them from U.S. citizenship.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Chinese Immigration Act of 1923 was passed by the government of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in response to continued demands for more prohibitive regulations to limit Chinese immigration.