Those same disgruntled workers managed to also influence the congress to pass the Exclusion act of 1879. ... So, China agreed to the act if U.S. controlled immigration. After a few additions to the original exclusion act, a new act was passed in 1882 called The Chinese Exclusion Act. ... This unfair act led to many negative oppositions towards the Chinese. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first significant law limiting immigrants from entering America. ...

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Although some missionaries, businessmen, and others defended the Chinese, they were unable to prevent the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, a law that virtually banned further immigration from China. ... In 1882, however, the Chinese Exclusion Act banned immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years. ... The reason behind the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was to prevent an excess of cheap labor. ... Exclusion Act was repealed, however, a lasting impact remained. The act was both cause and effect: it came from decades of ...

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Hundreds of Chinese people immigrated from China to the United States from 1882 until 1943. ... In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which prohibited all Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States except for travelers, merchants, teachers, students, tourists and government officials . ... The immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 extended the same privileges to other immigrants, including the Japanese . ...

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In 1882 Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, stopping entry of most Chinese immigrants into the United States. More immigration laws were passed in 1875, 1882, and 1892. ... The immigration Act of 1917 added more people to the list of being excluded from entering the United States. ... The Immigration Act of 1924 allowed immigrants from northern and western Europe to have high quotas. ... The Displaced Persons Acts of 1948 and 1950 and the Refugee Relief Act of 1953 admitted over 500,000 immigrants. ...

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The Chinese Exclusion act, for instance, is a law made in 1882 which was directly targeted against the Chinese immigrants. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was law in the US history which limited immigration on the basis of race and class. (Tian) Erika Lee is the first scholar to write a book named "At America's Gates" against the act. ... This act can be the s...

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In 1882 he established the Standard Oil Trust. Congress than passed the Sherman anti-trust act, originally to stop from monopolies but it ended up hurting labor organizations. ... The validity of the historians is to some extent accurate because the U.S. didn't take action right away, and let the courts misinterpret the Anti-Trust Act. ... So government passed the Interstate Commerce Act in 1887, to make sure that charges on railroads were fair. ...

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Some of these include the Immigration Act of 1917, the Immigration Act of 1924, The Bracero Program of 1942-1964, Operation Wetback, The Oriental Exclusion Act, The McCarren Walter Act, and the Temporary Quota Law of 1921(Plesser 2-3,10-11,13,16,38-42,65). ... One of the first attempts to slow the migration rate was the Oriental Exclusion Act of 1882. In 1882, Congress passed the " first general immigration statute" (22 Stat 214). ... Thus creating such acts as the Chinese Exclusion Act (22 Stat. 58) which would almost curb the influx of Chinese (Plesser 9). ... This act was granted exte...

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Around this time the Reconstruction Act of 1867 came about and required the southern states to write new constitutions permitting African Americans to vote and hold public office. After this Act was brought forth, in 1868 Revels was appointed for a term on the board of Natchez city Board of Alderman. ... Revels retired from Alcorn in 1882. ...

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An act was passed in the 1880's that forbade criminals to enter the country. ... When the Chinese Exclusion Act was first passed, it was vetoed by Hayes. But when he was no longer in power, it was ratified in 1882.*4 Due to these exclusions + bans on immigration on foreigners, the American Industrial workers were not as threatened with their job security. ...

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-James Harvey Slater, 1882 In 1882, the United States government passed the Chinese Exclusion Act which was the first significant law restricting immigration to the United States. ... In 1924, the Federal government passed the Immigration Act which officially barred further immigration from Asia and Europe to the U.S....

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Only a few Chinese were allowed to enter the United States because of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. ... There were some that were there up to 2 years, and this was also because of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. ...

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In the short congressional session of 1882 and 1883, Arthur again supported a reform bill. Finally yielding to pressure from the public and from the National Civil Service Reform League, Congress passed the Pendleton Act, sponsored by Senator George H. ... Although symbolically important, the act only applied to about 14,000 of 131,000 federal employees. ... The spoils system was a long-established political tradition, however, and many of Arthur's followers angrily withdrew their support from the president when he signed the act. ... Unfortunately, in 1882 the candidate whom Arthur and C...

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It was both a mythic and religious idea in their minds.Footnote11 It provided the Japanese in this time of chaos after coming in contact with foreigners a belief in stability (according to Japanese myth the imperial line is a unbroken lineage handed down since time immortal), and it provided a belief in the natural superiority of Japanese culture.Footnote12 The symbolism of the Emperor helped ensure the success of the restorationists because it undercut the legitimacy of the Shogunate's rule, and it strengthened the Meiji rulers who claimed to act for the Emperor. ... ...

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The Dawes Allotment Act was created on February 8th 1887. ... The Dawes Severalty Act would replace the common land of the native tribes with privately owned pieces of land. ... The purpose of the act was to change the Native American society and hopefully assimilate the Indians. Although the greed of white entrepreneurs and large potential profits can be regarded as the major factors that induced the Act, the non-conforming life style of the Indians served to justify the Act to the general public. ... By use of horizontal and vertical integration, Standard Oil controlled more than 90 percent...

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The first federal law on immigration restriction was enacted in 1875 and 1882. ... Another restrictive law on immigration took place in 1882, known as the ''Chinese Act''. ... The Act excluded Chinese "skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining" from entering the country for ten years under penalty of imprisonment and deportation. ... Finally, this fact of hostility to immigration in the late 19th century was strong in the United States and culminates as we will see later, with the Immigration Act in 1924. ...

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He was an author, lawyer, public official, a member of the New York state Assembly during 1882-84, a member of the Civil Commissions in 1889-95, the President of the New York city Board of Police Commissioners in 1894-96, an Assistant Secretary of the Navy during 1897-98, Governor of New York during 1899-1901, Vice President in 1901 (under McKinley), then president of the United States during 1901-09. ... He passed the Meat Inspection Act, the Hepburn Act, the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and the National Reclamation Act of 1902. ...

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The chinese would face nationalism and unfair treatment that would lead to the exclusionary act in 1882. ... It appears the guard blocking the chinese man's path is reading the chinese exclusionary act prohibiting the chinese man to enter the castle. ... In addition, there is an excerpt from the legal document the exclusionary act and this reads the following: "This country angers the good certain localities with in the territory thereof: Therefore, until the expiration of ten years the coming of chinese laborers to the United States is here by suspended." ... The chinese population ...

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"In 1882, they transferred the stock of all their companies into the newly formed Standard Oil Trust. ... "However, in 1911 the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Standard Oil had continued to act as a monopoly. ...

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An immigration legislation was enacted in 1920; this act cut off the immigration. ... The switch from wind-driven ships to steam ships represented an important step from economical and immigration point of view; so that, the immigrants number increased from 5 million to 10 million in 30 years, and to 15 million in the next 15 years. 87% of the immigrants came from N and W and E Europe in 1882, 25 years later 81% were from S and E Europe. ...

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Chinese Immigration To Hawaii 1) Long before any Chinese arrived in Hawaii, a Hawaiian chief visited China. It happened in 1787 when an English merchant took a Kauai chief to trade goods with the Chinese in Canton. A year later, they returned to Hawaii with 50 Chinese carpenters aboard th...

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This arrangement with the United States angered Chinese which lead to the revision of the Burlingame-Seward Treaty along with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 resulting in it the retraction of the treaties free immigration clause (Burlingame-Seward Treaty). ...

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An advertisement's only purpose is to make the potential consumer buy it's product. Advertisers have formulated cunning ways to confuse the potential consumer into seeing or hearing things that are not evident. This advertiser's are so cunning, that their false tactics are not considered lies; and a...

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The Immigration Act of 1875 was the first effort to restrict immigration. ... This was reinforced by the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. ... The Immigration Act of 1891 moved the increasing burden of processing new immigrants from the states to the Federal Bureau of Immigration. ...

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Always the dreamer, he attempts to make his mark as a salesman because "selling is the greatest career a man can want" (1859; Act 2). ... Happy complains, "I mean I can outbox, outrun, and outlift anybody in that store, and I have to take orders from those common, pretty sons-of-bitches till I can't stand it any more" (1831; Act 1). ... He tells Linda, "Charley bought a General Electric refrigerator and it's twenty years old and it's still good, that son-of-a-bitch" (1855; Act 2). ... (1882; Act2). ...

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