Chinese Exclusion

By 1880, over 300,000 Chinese people were living in the United States, most in

• California

• Washington

• Connecticut

• New York

An arrangement in which their passage was paid in advance by US businessmen to whom the Chinese immigrants were then indebted for a period of work was called

• credit-ticket

• slavery

• paid for work servants

• peasants

Prohibited by law in 1790 from obtaining US citizenship through naturalization, Chinese immigrants faced harsh discrimination and violence from American settlers in the West

• True

• False

in 1882, the US Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which

• was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. It restricted immigration from China for ten years.

• Excluded Chinese people from working

• It Excluded Chinese people from public schools

• It Excluded Chinese people from marriage