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Siteseen: American Historama: Chinese Exclusion Act

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The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first significant law to restrict immigration to the United States and banned the immigration of unskilled laborers from China for 10 years from 1882 to 1892, but was then extended by the 1892 Geary Act and then made permanent until it was repealed in 1943.

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