WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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naturalism
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nativism
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laissez-faire
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muckraking
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -81. Prints & Photographs Division. The Chinese Exclusion Act (PDF, 428KB) of 1882 was signed into law on May 6, 1882. Officially titled “An act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese, ” the Chinese Exclusion Act prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers for ten years.
Detailed explanation-3: -Chinese communities in the United States underwent dramatic change because of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Families were forced apart, and businesses were closed down. Because of the severe restrictions on female immigrants and the pattern of young men migrating alone, a largely bachelor society emerged.
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.