The act followed the Angell Treaty of 1880, a set of revisions to the U.S.–China Burlingame Treaty of 1868 that allowed the U.S. Passage of the law was preceded by anti-Chinese violence, as well as various policies targeting Chinese migrants. Building on the earlier Page Act of 1875 which banned Chinese women from migrating to the United States, the Chinese Exclusion Act was the first, and remains the only, law to have been implemented to prevent all members of a specific ethnic or national group from immigrating to the United States. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A.
The first page of the Chinese Exclusion Act