Chinese demands for equal rights forced the Supreme Court to use the Fourteenth Amendment to rule that children of Chinese immigrants were U.S. citizens by birthright.

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The Supreme Court case United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) established that children born in the United States to Chinese immigrants were U.S. citizens by birthright under the Fourteenth Amendment, which grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.

Chinese Demands for Equal Rights Forced the Supreme Court to Use