Answer:
e. was the first time race was used to exclude an entire group of people from entering the United States.
Explanation:
Signed into law on May 6, 1882, by the then President Chester A. Arthur, the Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law banning immigrants into the United States on a racial basis. Although Chinese account for .002 percent of the country's population, they were banned for neutralization to maintain racial purity and to curb the economic competition posed by them to the American population.