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Congress passed and President Chester A.Arthur signed into law the first law that excluded immigrants from entry into the United States on the basis of race. The law was set to last for 10 years.
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Overall, the period is known as the Great Migration because of the large numbers of African-Americans who left the South to seek a better quality of life through improved employment prospects and a less overtly discriminatory culture in the North.
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