USA HISTORY

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: -Many Americans on the West Coast attributed declining wages and economic ills to Chinese workers. Although the Chinese composed only 0.002 percent of the nation’s population, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act to placate worker demands and assuage concerns about maintaining white “racial purity."

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Eventually, Asian exclusion ended with the 1952 Immigration Act, although that Act followed the pattern of the Chinese quota and assigned racial, not national, quotas to all Asian immigrants.

Detailed explanation-5: -Nativists strongly supported the Chinese Exclusion Act. Under President Chester Arthur, the Chinese Exclusion Act became law on May 6, 1882.