Anti-Chinese legislation in the United States

Anti-Chinese legislation in the United States was introduced in the United States to deal with Chinese migrants following the gold rush in California and those coming to build the railway, including:

• Anti-Coolie Act of 1862
• Page Act of 1875
• Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
• Pigtail Ordinance

See also

• Burlingame Treaty
• Chinese Exclusion Act – (United States)
• China exclusion policy of NASA, 2011 – (United States)
• Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 – (Canada)
• Chinese Immigration Act, 1923 – (Canada)
• Definitions of whiteness in the United States
• Eugenics in the United States
• Geary Act
• Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965
• Magnuson Act

External links

• Chinese Exclusion Act Archived 2011-08-14 at the Wayback Machine
• George Frederick Seward and the Chinese Exclusion Act | "From the Stacks" at New-York Historical Society