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Asian Americans and U.S. Law
Resource 2 . 2 . 1
9 minutes

1882 Chinese Exclusion Act text

Marina Hsieh

The text of this landmark Act is provided as reference for the opinions that follow. Consider the "who, what, when, where, how, and why" of the Act. 

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