Politics and the Gilded Age
Politics and the Gilded Age
Politics and the Gilded Age
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Class Conflicts <strong>and</strong> EthnicClashes• 1882 – Chinese Exclusion Act passed– Congress shut door on all Chinese immigration– Stayed in force until 1943• 1898 – US v. Wong Kim Ark– Supreme Court stopped nativists from takingcitizenship from Chinese Americans (<strong>and</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rimmigrant groups)– Court ruled that 14 th Amendment grantedcitizenship to all persons born in US