chinese exclusion act
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By : Calvin C. Jordan E. & Ryan C.
Chinese Exclusion & Immigration
Concept Map!
Chinese Immigration & Exclusion
5 Essential Questions
Geography
(Throughout)
History
ImportantPeople
RelevantScienceBehind
5 Essential Answers
Bibliography Basic Facts
1. When did Chinese people begin to immigrate to America? Why?
2. What started the Chinese Exclusion? Who started it? And when did it start?
3. How were the Chinese treated in America?
4. How did the exclusion affect the Chinese? The Americans?
5. Is there some form of Chinese exclusion/Chinese hate going on today?
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Basic Facts• First Chinese immigrants in 1800’s; first Asian immigrants in America
•Most early Chinese immigrants moved to the west coast
• Chinese Exclusion Act is the first law in America that restricts immigration by race
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History• Immigration to America• Chinese Exclusion & Anti Chinese
Movement• Daily Life & Treatment• The End of the Exclusion & Influence
Early Immigration• Began in the early 1800’s
• First group of Chinese immigrants were widely respected
• Gold Rush, 1840’s = large scale immigration of unskilled laborers; less respect
• Americans blamed the Chinese (“rice eaters”) for minimum wage and lack of jobs
•1865 Transcontinental Railroad
• Discrimination leads to violence which then leads to the Chinese Exclusion Act
1800’s-1850’s
Chinese Exclusion & Anti-Chinese, 1850’s-
1943• Many homicides/violence involving Chinese victims were committed throughout the Chinese Exclusion; Rock Springs massacre of 1885
• “A Chinaman’s Chance”
• May 6, 1882 Chinese Exclusion
• States that most Chinese people cannot immigrate to America/ no US citizenship
• Chinese could not marry Whites
• Legal harassment
• Prevented Chinese from testifying in court against a white person
• Bad treatment, flees to Chinatowns= Ghettos
YearTotal
PopulationChinese
Population1840 17,069,453 not available1850 23,191,876 4,000
1860 31,443,321 35,000
1870 38,558,371 64,0001880 50,189,209 105,0001890 62,979,766 100,0001900 76,212,168 110,0001910 92,228,496 95,0001920 106,021,537 62,0001930 123,202,624 102,0001940 132,164,569 106,0001950 151,325,798 150,0001960 179,323,175 237,0001970 203,302,031 436,0001980 226,542,199 812,0001990 248,709,873 1,645,4722000 281,421,906 2,432,585
2004 (Estimation of the US Census)
285,691,501 3,353,486
Daily Life & Treatment
Daily Life & The Transcontinental Railroad
- Working conditions- Wages- Chinatown conditions
Treatment- Abused. Physically and
mentally - Discriminated- Angel Island Processing
Center- 1910-1940
End of Exclusion
• Discrimination and violence continued for 40 years; Geary Act
• World War II, China and USA become allies
• Magnuson Act of 1943
• Chinese weren’t so quick to accept the American’s apology
History Skit!
Important People
• Thomas J. Geary• Geary Act• Denis Kearney
– 1854 – 1929
– Elected to Congress
– Elected another 2 times
– Failed next re-election
– Geary Act - 1892
Thomas J. Geary
• 1892
• Extended Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
• Certificate of residence
• Deportation or 1 year imprisonment
• Not allowed in court
The Geary Act
1847-1907
California political leader
Immigrated to USA
William Tell Coleman
Workingman's Party
Led violent Attacks
Central Pacific Railroad
1847-1907
California political leader
Immigrated to USA
William Tell Coleman
Workingman's Party
Led violent Attacks
Central Pacific Railroad
“The Chinese must go”
Denis Kearney
Science Behind
• Psychology • Technology (Propaganda) • Sociology
• The scientific study of the human mind and its functions, esp. those affecting behavior in a given context
• Took their jobs
• Cooks, peddlers, and
storekeepers • If somebody takes your jobs,
you’re bound to be angry• If everyone’s doing it, you
should too?
(That’s always the answer)
Psychology
White Protesters on Banning the Chinese
•Definition- the study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society
• They lost the social role they would have in China
•Harassed, excluded, discriminated, abused, etc.
•They had to learn a new social system
Sociology
Relevant
• Do we still feel the effects today? Did we learn anything from this?• Are there new laws because of this?• Is it still happening?• Is anyone trying to stop it, if it is still happening?
America is embarrassed
The exclusion act ended, but there is still some racism toward Chinese
We aren’t (so) racist anymore!
Effects
Chinese White
RELEVANCE!
Magnuson Act of 1943..
Warren G. Magnuson
America and China actually learned something!
The racisms towards the Chinese
Black on Chinese violence…
Anti-Chinese stories today
2007, 2.5 percent of all reported hate crimes (188 out of 7,624)
RELEVANCE 2!
Warren G. Magnuson
• Mexican, Chinese, and Filipino people…
• Boat and Airplane
• How long is the trip?
• How many?
• Chinese people are actually doing good from once!
Countryper year
2000 2004 20102010, %
Mexico175,900
7,841,000
8,544,600
9,600,000
23.7%
China50,900
1,391,000
1,594,600
1,900,000
4.7%
Philippines47,800
1,222,000
1,413,200
1,700,000
4.2%
India59,300
1,007,000
1,244,200
1,610,000
4.0%
Total Pop. Top 10
498,900
16,112,000
18,747,600
21,741,000
53.7%
Total Foreign
Born
940,000
31,100,000
34,860,000
40,500,000
100%
Immigration Today
• The Chinese Exclusion Act relates because…
• Everyone is the same
• It just isn’t right
Connection To Theme!
Essential Answer #1
1. When did Chinese people begin to immigrate to America? Why?
A. Chinese people began to immigrate to America during the early 1800’s. The reason why they wanted to immigrate to America is because they wanted to make more money and find gold, which would help support their families back home.
Essential Answer #2
2. What started the Chinese Exclusion? Who started it? And when did it start?A. The Chinese Exclusion was signed into law on May 8, 1882 by Chester A. Arthur. The exclusion started because Chinese people were becoming abundant in America therefore, taking a lot of jobs making the Americans want to take away the right of immigrating to America for Chinese people
Essential Answer #3
3. How were the Chinese treated in America?A. The first Chinese immigrants were widely respected by the Americans, then, once the Gold Rush began, it attracted more unskilled Chinese people which is when the Americans began to lose respect for Chinese people. The Americans were racist towards Chinese people and began to be violent towards them committing many homicides with Chinese victims. They also verbally abused them, treated them differently, and completely stripping their human rights.
4. How did the exclusion affect the Chinese? The Americans?A. The Exclusion affected the Chinese in many negative ways; they were discriminated, violated, and abused. The Exclusion also affected the Americans in a negative way, during this time period America’s economy fell drastically because of less Chinese immigrants, they actually needed the Chinese
Essential Answer #4
5. Is there some form of Chinese exclusion/Chinese hate going on today?A. No, the Chinese Exclusion Act and all other laws similar to that ended in 1943 with the Magnuson Act but of course, not everyone believes all races are equal and some people are still racist towards Chinese people and other Asians causing hate crimes and some violence even in today’s society , 2.5 percent (188 of of all hate crimes are reported with Chinese victims
Essential Answer #5
Bibliography•http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Chinese.html•http://www.srvhs.org/Staff/teachers/ehamilton/US%20Pages/Readings/Chinese%20Immigration.pdf
•http://teachingamericanhistorymd.net/000001/000000/000136/html/t136.html•http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/1874.html•http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/themed_collections/subtopic2a.html•http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr/peopleevents/p_cprr.html•http://teachingamericanhistorymd.net/000001/000000/000136/html/t136.html•http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/asian_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=13•http://www.civilrights.org/publications/hatecrimes/asian-pacific.html•http://newamericamedia.org/2010/05/san-franciscos-black-on-chinese-violence-goes-back-decades.php
Book:1. Immigration By: Tamara L. Roleff, Bonnie Szumski, Scott Barbour, Helen Cothran 2. Political History of America’s wars By: Alan Axelrod 3. Anti Chinese Movement in California By: Elmer Clarence Sandmeyer
Video:Remembering 1882: Fighting for Civil Rights in the Shadow of the Chinese Exclusion Act
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By : Calvin C. Jordan E. & Ryan C.
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