Chinese Exclusion Act

APUSH - Spiconardi

Portland, Oregon, March 7. - The bodies of M. Coleman and Wilson Patten, well-known citizens of Seattle, W. T., arrived here from Lake Washington yesterday. They were assassinated by some unknown persons. Coleman was foreman of the Grand Jury that indicted a number of men for participating in the recent Seattle riot, and also those who shot and killed several Chinamen at the New Castle coal mines.

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

• Outlawed Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States– Supposed to last for ten years, but

was renewed in 1892 and made permanent in 1902

• Prevented Chinese immigrants from obtaining citizenship

• Later additions to the act would– Prevent most female emigration

from China– Prevent immigrants from leaving

and then returning to the U.S.*First time the U.S. legislated against open immigration

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