Chinese laborers signed in may of 1882, the law prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers into the USA. it was in response to widespread anti-Chinese movement in states such as California. To ensure this the country even had detention camps constructed to control the influx of Chinese into the country. <span />
The Viking Explorer Who Beat Columbus to America. Leif Eriksson Day commemorates the Norse explorer believed to have led the first European expedition to North America. Nearly 500 years before the birth of Christopher Columbus, a band of European sailors left their homeland behind in search of a new world.
