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Anti-Chinese legislation in the United States was introduced in the United States that targeted Chinese migrants following the California gold rush 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

References

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

• Anti-Chinese legislation
• Anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States
• United States federal immigration and nationality legislation
• Human migration