Gyory, Andrew, <br/><br/>
Closing the gate :  race, politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act / 
 Race, politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act 
Andrew Gyory. 
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<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-338) and index. 
<br/><br/> Very Recklessness of Statesmanship: Explanations for Chinese Exclusion, 1870s-1990s --  To Fetch Men Wholesale: Framing the Chinese Issue Nationally in the 1860s and the First Chinese Scare in 1869 --  Yan-ki vs. Yan-kee: Americans React to Chinese Laborers in 1870 --  All Sorts of Tricks: Defining Importation, 1871-1875 --  To Overcome the Apathy of National Legislators: The Presidential Campaign of 1876 --  Reign of Terror to Come: Uprising and Red Scare, 1877-1878 --  Unduly Inflated Sack of Very Bad Gas: Denis Kearney Comes East, 1878 --  Rolling in the Dirt: The Fifteen Passenger Bill of 1879 --  Earthquake of Excitement: California and the Exodus East, 1879-1880 --  No Material Difference: The Presidential Campaign of 1880 --  Gate Must Be Closed: The Angell Treaty and the Race to Exclude, 1881-1882 --  Mere Question of Expediency: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 --  App.: Text of the Chinese Exclusion Act.  Machine generated contents note:  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12. 
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<br/><br/> The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred practically allChinese from American shores for ten years, was the first federallaw that banned a group of immigrants solely on the basis of raceor nationality. By changing America's traditional policy of openimmigration, this landmark legislation set a precedent for futurerestrictions against Asian immigrants in the early 1900s andagainst Europeans in the 1920s. Tracing the origins of the Chinese Exclusion Act, AndrewGyory presents a bold new interpretation of American politicsduring Reconstruction and the. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>[Place of publication not identified] : <br/>HathiTrust Digital Library, <br/>2010. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>080786675X 9780807866757 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> 00027332 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1800-1899 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Chinese Americans--History--19th century.<br/>Chinese Americans--History--California--19th century.<br/>Chinese Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.--History--19th century.<br/>Labor policy--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Labor policy--History--California--19th century.<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE--Emigration & Immigration.<br/>Chinese Americans.<br/>Chinese Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.<br/>Emigration and immigration.<br/>Labor policy.<br/>Race relations.<br/>Migratiebeleid.<br/>Chinezen.<br/>Rassendiscriminatie.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.<br/>California--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.<br/>United States--Race relations.<br/>California--Race relations.<br/>California.<br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic book.<br/>Electronic books.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E184.C5  / G9 1998eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>325.73/089/951