This is the text of the Geary Act of 1892, a federal law that extended Chinese Exclusion for another ten years and added important additional…

This source is an excerpt from a book examining the Americanization movement and different immigrant groups.…

This is the text of the Chinese Exclusion Act. It was the first legislation to severely restrict immigration.…

This is the text of a newspaper article that appeared in the New York Times on May 2, 1893. …

This article is a response to an article published in the Washington Post which points out the inherent irony in the U.S. government's extension of an invitation to China to participate in the Columbian Exposition, despite the existence of…

This is a transcript of the House of Representatives debate about extending and amending Chinese Exclusion in 1892. …

This editorial criticized the Chinese government's reasons for not participating in the World's Columbian Exposition. The editors accuse China of also discriminating against American citizens, and argues that Chinese Exclusion would not make Chinese…

This is a letter written by Hong Sling in 1900 to the Chinese Ambassador in Washington. It was in an attachment from the ambassador to Secretary of State John Hay, Oct. 20,…

This is a scan of the original Chinese Exclusion Act document, originally written December 5, 1881, and later approved on May 6, 1882.

For more information about the Chinese Exclusion Act, see the description for the Chinese Exclusion Act…

This source is an excerpt of Senate Testimony concerning the renewal of Chinese Exclusion in 1902. …