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Chinese exclusion act
in 1882, congress passed the chinese exclusion act, which denied citizenship to people born in china and prohibited the immigration of chinese laborers. -
the geary act
after the exclusion act expried, it extended 10 more years in the form of the geary act -
congress appeal all of exclusion acts
congress apeal all of exclusion acts leaving a yearly limit of chinese people and also giving foreign born people their right