WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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It stopped immigration by Chinese laborers to the United States for 10 years.
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It allowed the families of legal Chinese immigrants to come to the United States.
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It called for deportation of all Chinese people that had entered the United States illegally.
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It stopped Chinese people that immigrated to the United States from becoming US citizens.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1923, the Government of Canada revoked the head tax, a large fee charged to Chinese people entering Canada, replacing it with the Chinese Immigration Act, 1923, which virtually halted all immigration from China. Over the next 24 years, only 44 Chinese migrants entered the country.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act Meant to curb the influx of Chinese immigrants to the United States-particularly California-the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 suspended Chinese immigration for ten years and declared Chinese immigrants ineligible for naturalization.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Chinese Exclusion Act also affected the Chinese who had already settled in the United States. Any Chinese who left the United States had to obtain certifications for reentry, and the act made Chinese immigrants permanent aliens by excluding them from U.S. citizenship.