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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was developed to help give civil rights to the Asian Americans true or false?

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User Pollux Khafra
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This is false!

In fact, the opposite is true, as this act was resticting the rights of Asian Americans - mostly those that wanted to come, but also those who were already in the US, since they could not leave and re-enter the country. Also Chinese immigrants could not get the citizenship.
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