On 16 August 2011 01:21, George Pinto <[email protected]> wrote:
> One expects California to deliver the best. Napa Valley wines now arguably > better than French and Italian wines. The Chinese played a big part in the > production of wine; they built the cellars, grew the grapes and even bottled > them. Then came the Chinese exclsuion which wiped them out. Here is a snippet on the issue:- > > Chinese Exclusion Act >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Chinese Exclusion Act (United States)<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chinese_Exclusion_Act_(United_States)&redirect=no> ) This article is about the former U.S. law. For the similar Canadian law, see Chinese Immigration Act of 1923<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Immigration_Act_of_1923> . <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chineseexclusionact.JPG> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chineseexclusionact.JPG> The first page of the Chinese Exclusion Act. The *Chinese Exclusion Act* was a United States federal law<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Code> signed by Chester A. Arthur <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_A._Arthur> on May 8, 1882, following revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame Treaty<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlingame_Treaty> of 1868. Those revisions allowed the U.S.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States> to suspend immigration<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States>, and Congress subsequently acted quickly to implement the suspension of Chinese immigration <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_American_history>, a ban that was intended to last 10 years. This law was repealed by the Magnuson Act <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson_Act> on December 17, 1943. -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
