American History Tellers
Transcontinental Railroad | The Iron Road | 5
Sue Lee
The city of Tacoma enacted a law that said all Chinese must be out of town on such and such a date. So all that activity percolated through the 1870s. So by 1882, there was enough sentiment against Chinese for Congress to enact the Chinese Exclusion Act, which specifically banned the immigration of Chinese laborers. But there were exceptions.
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