Chinese Exclusion Act — Any of several acts forbidding the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States, originally from 1882 to 1892 by act of May 6, 1882, then from 1892 to 1902 by act May 5, 1892. By act of April 29, 1902, all existing legislation on the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Chinese Exclusion Act — This article is about the former U.S. law. For the similar Canadian law, see Chinese Immigration Act of 1923. The first page of the Chinese Exclusion Act. The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by Chester A. Arthur on… … Wikipedia
Chinese Exclusion Act — Die erste Seite vom Chinese Exclusion Act … Deutsch Wikipedia
Chinese Exclusion Act — Loi d exclusion des Chinois Première page de la loi La Loi d exclusion des Chinois (Chinese Exclusion Act) était une loi fédérale américaine votée le 6 mai 1882, à la suite des révisions de 1880 du traité de Burlingame de 1868. Ces révisions… … Wikipédia en Français
Chinese Exclusion Act (United States) — The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law passed on May 6, 1882, following revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. Those revisions allowed the U.S. to suspend immigration, and Congress subsequently acted quickly… … Wikipedia
Chinese Exclusion Act — U.S. federal law enacted in 1882 that suspended immigration of Chinese laborers (repealed in 1943) … English contemporary dictionary
Chinese Exclusion Act — A former statute, enacted in 1882, amended in 1884, in pursuance of a policy since abandoned of forbidding the emigration of Chinese to the United States, except as the purpose of their coming, such as education, might provide a reason for… … Ballentine's law dictionary
Chinese Exclusion — refers to a body of racially discriminatory immigration policies first set up in the United States, but later imitated by Australia (White Australia policy, 1901) and Canada (1923). The American Chinese Exclusion Act was an immigration policy… … Wikipedia
Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 — The Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 placed a head tax on all Chinese immigrants coming to Canada, forcing them to pay a fifty dollar fee to enter the country. [1]In 1900, the fee was raised to one hundred dollars (a substantial amount of money at … Wikipedia
Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act — Der Magnuson Act (auch: Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act of 1943) war ein US amerikanisches Bundesgesetz. Das von Senator Warren G. Magnuson vorgeschlagene und am 17. Dezember 1943 verabschiedete Gesetz hob die Regelungen des seit 1882 bestehenden… … Deutsch Wikipedia
