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| Orphan BachelorsExclusion and Confession, the two slamming doors of America
Ng, Fae Myennehttp://harpers.org/archive/2019/02/orphan-bachelors-chinese-exclusion-act/ 
 Publisher:  Harper's Magazine
 Date Written:  01/02/2019
 Year Published:  2019
 Resource Type:  Article
 
 The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law to ban a nationality, as well as a victory for labor. Since the 1840s, whites moving to California considered the state to be for whites only and thought that any job held by a non-white was stolen from them.
 
 
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