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What measure was passed in 1882 to restrict chineses immigration?
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Which group most strongly supported the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Workers in the West
What 1882 law proclamied that hereafter no state court or court of the united states shall admit Chinese to citizenship and all laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed?
That would be the Chinese Exclusion Act.
What group was forbidden from immigrating to the US as early as 1882?
Chinese
What kind of job did the Chinese imagrants have?
Aside from their work on the Transcontinental Railroad, Chinese immigrants were confined to low payi8ng, menial jobs. There was a lot of racism at the time, and Chinese immigrants were often set upon by mobs of whites who believed they were taking away jobs. Anti-Chinese activism became so intense that the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was passed, banning further Chinese immigrants.
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