; and (3) reaffirmed that Chinese persons possessed all the rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions which are accorded to the citizens and subjects of the most favored nation ; Whereas Congress passed legislation that adversely affected and limited the civil rights of Chinese people in the United States, including— (1) on March 23, 1882, the first Chinese Exclusion Act, which would have excluded skilled and unskilled Chinese laborers for 20 years and expressly denied Chinese people the right to be naturalized as citizens of the United States, and which was vetoed by President Chester A. Arthur on April 4, 1882, as incompatible with the terms and the spirit of the Angell Treaty; (2) on May 3, 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 (22 Stat. 58, chapter 126), which— (A) prohibited Chinese workers from entering the United States for 10 years instead of 20; (B) required certain Chinese laborers already legally present at that time in the United States who later wished to reenter the United States to obtain certificates for return ; (C) prohibited courts from naturalizing Chinese individuals; (D) was signed into law by President Arthur on May 6, 1882; and (E) was the first Federal law that excluded a single group of people in the United States on the basis of race; (3) on July 3, 1884, an expansion of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 (23 Stat. 115, chapter 220), which— (A) applied the Act to all people of Chinese descent, whether subjects of China or any other foreign power ; and (B) was signed into law by President Arthur on July 5, 1884; (4) on September 13, 1888, the Scott Act (25 Stat. 504, chapter 1064), which— (A) prohibited legal Chinese laborers from reentering the United States, and cancelled all previously issued certificates for return ; (B) was signed into law by President Grover Cleveland on October 1, 1888; and (C) was determined by the Supreme Court of the United States in Chae Chan Ping v. United States, 130 U.S. 581 (1889), to have abrogated the Angell Treaty