Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140716:04:01:00
City. it was isolated from the rest of the city. the rest of san francisco didn't want anything to do with the immigrants who lived there. they didn't have anything to do with the immigrants who lived there. before chinatown was quarantined, there was a huge backlash going on against the chinese people who were emigrating to the united states. there was the 1882 chinese exclusion act which basically ended chinese immigration for ten years. prohibited chinese people from becoming u.s. citizens. that was passed by congress, signed into law by then-president chester alan arthur. there was a gener...