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3. What happens to Chae Chan Ping when he decides to visit China and
then return to the U.S.(

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Answer:

He was denied entry.

Step-by-step explanation:

While Chae Chan Ping was in China, the United States signed the Scott Act of 1888 into law, which prohibited Chinese laborers from returning to the United States, as an extension of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

Chae Chan Ping left his home in California in 1887, and while he was away, the Scott Act went into effect. Then, when he returned in 1888, he was denied reentry into the country at a port in San Francisco. He challenged this as a violation of his civil rights, and the case went to the Supreme Court.

In Chae Chan Ping v. United States (1889), the Court held that the law was constitutional, and Chae Chan Ping could not reenter the country. Not much is known about what happened to Chae Chan Ping afterwards.

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