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Chinese Laborers Excluded from U.S.
Agreeing to cooperate with a policy unilaterally adopted by Congress six years earlier, China approves a treaty forbidding Chinese laborers to enter the United States for 20 years.
In the 1850s, large numbers of Chinese immigrated to the American West. Most came from the Pearl River Delta region of South China, where famine and political instability made it difficult for them to support the large extended families thought to be essential to happiness and success. When exaggerated reports of the -
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