Sentence examples for a Chinese exclusion from inspiring English sources

In response, Congress passed a Chinese Exclusion Act in 1879, abrogating the 1868 treaty.

Bayard favored some restriction on Chinese immigration and voted in favor of a Chinese Exclusion Act in 1879, which passed both houses that year.

Down the rickety alleyways and produce-laden byways of San Francisco's Chinatown, some see the proposed law as a cultural assault — a sort of Chinese Exclusion Act in a bowl.

Sen. John F. Miller of California, a proponent of the Chinese Exclusion Act, argued that the Chinese workers were "machine-like…of obtuse nerve, but little affected by heat or cold, wiry, sinewy, with muscles of iron".

In particular, narrative construction, landscape design, and revised tours, insert a standardized story of Chinese exclusion into the national memory.

Restrictions on immigration and naturalization of Chinese were eventually lifted as a consequence of the Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act of 1943 (also known as the Magnuson Act) and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.

But one issue I thought the paper showed real courage on has been the anti-immigrant demagoguery of the popular Suffolk County Executive (and possible NY gubernatorial candidate) Steve Levy--a fellow who would have been right at home in the nativist anti-Irish and anti-German Know Nothing Party of the 1840s and 1850s, and a supporter of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

At a screening of the film last week, Burns called the Chinese Exclusion Act a "quintessentially American story" and described it as "the biggest part of American history that people don't know about," because you would be hard-pressed to find it mentioned in many history courses.