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Who banned chinese immigration to the us for a total of 40 years; after the completion of the transcontinental railroad many in the united states viewed the chinese as a threat to american jobs and culture?

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President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese exclusion act in 1882 which banned Chinese immigration to the United States for a total of 40 years.
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