On March 3, 1875, Congress passed the Page Act. On paper, it prohibited immigration of people coming under contracts to work and prostitutes. In reality, it leaned on highly racial and gender-specific stereotypes to curb Chinese immigration. The number of Chinese women immigrating to the U.S. dropped, not because all women coming were prostitutes, but because many wouldn't subject themselves to humiliating interrogations. The Chinese Exclusion Act seven years later was even more explicit. | Amer
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