In 1882, for example, all Chinese people were banned from entering via the Chinese Exclusion Act. In 1907-08, under the Gentleman's Agreement with Japan, the Japanese agreed to deny passports to its laborers wishing to head to the U.S., where hostility against Japanese immigrants was growin...
They suffered from the discriminatory laws that limited and excluded the Asian immigrants from theUnited States. The Chinese Exclusive Act in 1882 suspended Chinese immigration for 10 years. In 1965, a law was passed to allow immigrants from Asia to theUnited States. 3.Protestant philosophy ...
Juliet EilperinJerry Markon
After an initial wave of immigration to the continental U.S. in the 1850s, Asians were seen as a "yellow peril" and explicitly excluded from coming to the U.S. for nearly a century by laws including theChinese Exclusion Actof 1882. That changed after the Immigration and Nationality Act o...
In an overwhelming vote of 78-1 in favor, the Emergency Quota Act was passed and signed into law May 19 by President Warren G. Harding to restrict immigration in the United States by imposing a temporary quota system. The Act was the first federal law to limit European immigration. It cam...