In what year did The Chinese Exclusion Act prohibit the immigration of Chinese laborers into the US for 10 years?

• A. 1865
• B. 1882
• C. 1900
• D. 1914

Answer: (B)

The key fact here is when the Chinese Exclusion Act put a ten-year ban on Chinese labor immigration. That occurred in 1882, when the law was signed to restrict Chinese workers from entering the United States. It was the first major federal immigration restriction and marked a shift in policy toward excluding a specific ethnic group. Some categories, like merchants or family members already in the country, still had exemptions, but the restriction on laborers stood for ten years. The ban was later extended and eventually made permanent before being repealed in 1943. The other years listed don’t correspond to the enactment of this ten-year restriction.