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Chinese Exclusion Act

Term · Law · MLC-T-LAW-000969

A United States federal law signed in 1882 that prohibited the immigration of all Chinese laborers for a ten-year period. The legislation was the first law enacted to prevent a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the U.S. and required Chinese individuals already in the country to obtain certificates to re-enter if they left. Originally temporary, the act was extended by the Geary Act in 1892 and made permanent in 1902, before being repealed by the Magnuson Act in 1943.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-LAW-000969
FieldLaw
Record as JSON 
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  "term": "Chinese Exclusion Act",
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  "definition": "A United States federal law signed in 1882 that prohibited the immigration of all Chinese laborers for a ten-year period. The legislation was the first law enacted to prevent a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the U.S. and required Chinese individuals already in the country to obtain certificates to re-enter if they left. Originally temporary, the act was extended by the Geary Act in 1892 and made permanent in 1902, before being repealed by the Magnuson Act in 1943.",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/law/chinese-exclusion-act/"
}

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