Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Signed on May 6, 1882 by President Chester Arthur, the Chinese Exclusion Act halted immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States and ...

The Chinese Exclusion Act was intended for 10 years, but the ban lasted for more than 60 years and made it difficult for Chinese immigrants already here from finding jobs and from becoming ...

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Arthur signed The Chinese Exclusion Act that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens.