Oriental exclusion acts

Oriental exclusion acts, edicts either limiting or halting immigration of Asians into the United States. Initially, Chinese laborers were welcomed and protected by the Burlingame Treaty (1868), but when the U.S. economy slipped the Chinese were blamed, and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was passed. Japanese immigration met the same fate when the Immigration Act of 1924 prohibited all Asian immigration. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 gave Asians the same rights as other immigrants, but the U.S. quota system did not end until 1965.