USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. 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: -The first three Chinese immigrants-Ashing, Achun, and Accun from Guangzhou arrived in San Francisco in 1785 as crewmen-starting the history of Chinese immigration to the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the 19th century, Sino–U.S. maritime trade began the history of Chinese Americans. At first only a handful of Chinese came, mainly as merchants, former sailors, to America. The first Chinese people of this wave arrived in the United States around 1815.

Detailed explanation-5: -America’s first big restriction on immigration, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, came in reaction to the arrival of Chinese immigrants in the mid-1800s.