CLEP US History II

Answer: D - The first piece of federal immigration legislation was the Page Act of 1875, which restricted immigration from Asia in a bid to keep “undesirable” people out of the United States. The law prohibited the immigration of Asian sex workers, criminals, or contract laborers. The ban on prostitutes was enforced the most strongly and made it virtually impossible for Chinese women to immigrate to the United States, even if they were not sex workers.