Charles Guiteau And The Chinese Exclusion

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Charles Guiteau is convicted and executed for the shooting of President Garfield. In 1882, Arhutr creates a tariff commission to review taxes and duties paid on foreign imports into the U.S. The Mongrel Tariff of 1883 reduced duties by nearly 1% and serviced no one, leading to a massive debate on tariffs for decades to come. The Chinese Exclusion Law of 1882 is the first piece of American legislation to outlaw a group from the U.S. based on ethnicity. It prohibite the immigration of Chinese to the US and received poplar support from Californians and the working-class. William Graham Sumner publishes a pamphlet called What Social Classes Owe to Each Other which publicized the application of Darwin’s Evolution theory to social classes of America.