WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Individuals born within the People’s Republic of China automatically receive Chinese nationality at birth if at least one parent is a Chinese national.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Existing nationality laws dating from 1790 and 1870 excluded people of Asian lineage from naturalizing. As a result, the 1924 Act meant that even Asians not previously prevented from immigrating – the Japanese in particular – would no longer be admitted to the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1923, pressured by the B.C. government, the federal government enacted the Chinese Immigration Act (commonly called the Chinese Exclusion Act). Passed on July 1, Dominion Day, the act was humiliating and debilitating in its damage to Chinese Canadian communities.

Detailed explanation-5: -The repeal of this act was a decision almost wholly grounded in the exigencies of World War II, as Japanese propaganda made repeated reference to Chinese exclusion from the United States in order to weaken the ties between the United States and its ally, the Republic of China.