After 1882, Chinese people could not come to America because of the Chinese Exclusion Act which prohibited the Chinese from immigrating to America.  This law stayed in effect through 1943.  The Chinese Exclusion Act was enacted because some Americans felt as if the Chinese were taking many of Americans jobs.  The Chinese immigrants were also accepting low pay which in turn brought the pay of “regular Americans” down as well.

The act originally was made to last for ten years, but when the ten years were up, Congress renewed the act for ten more years with the Geary Act.  Then, in 1902 they renewed the Act once more but gave it no terminal date.  In 1943, the Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed by the Magnuson Act which allowed 105 Chinese immigrants into the United States per year.