What was the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act? | The Chinese Exclusion Act
Chinese Exclusion Act was unlike any law enacted since the founding of the republic.
Singling out as never before a specific race and nationality for exclusion - it made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America - and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become citizens of the United States.
Fueled by deep-seated tensions over race and class and national identity that had been festering since the founding of the republic, it was the first in a long line of acts targeting the Chinese for exclusion - and it would remain in force for more than sixty years.
It continues to shape the debate about what it means to be an American to this day.
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Examine the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens. The first in a long line of acts targeting the Chinese for exclusion, it remained in force for more than 60 years.
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All chinese should be able to ride any trains for free! They built the continental rail road.
My great great great grandparents came to California before this act was passed in 1882, they came to find a “better life.” I feel sorry for them that they might have suffered a lot but I’m glad that im one of their descendants.
The fact that they don't teach us about stuff like this in US history is HORRIFYING.
Now we have to score higher to enter Ivy League schools for our higher intellect.
On 12/18/2021 me and my son picked up the Congressional Gold Medal for my father's service in WW2. The Chinese were singled out and were excluded to becoming citizens of the United States. Over 40% of the Chinese men and women still fought in WW2 to defend the people and ideals of the American way. My father was the model "American citizen" that was without the recognition that he deserved. I hope he can see from heaven how proud his family and country is of him.
Nothing has fundamentally changed. We Chinese living in the West, not only in the US, suffer discrimination, persecution and hostilities in our daily life. As a British Chinese, I am not safe at home or anywhere in the UK.
Yes history must told this truth about Chinese in US.
Chinese are always hardworkers since the beginning of time. As a woodworker, I know what's like going through hard labor. Shout out to those who survived the railroad job and return back to China to live a peaceful life. R.i.p to those who were massacred 😔🎩
The history of Chinese immigrants should be taught in schools, history of Native Americans and Africans included, maybe somewhere somehow in time America will learn not to discriminate because of color or race.
Unfortunately, Mexico did that too but people nowadays just ignore it.
Just remember the "rule of law" argument from the Canadian government who not only had their own version of the Chinese Exclusion Act but also a head tax on all Chinese coming to Canada.
During the late 19th century, a recession was going on. Workers were either losing their jobs or losing part of their wages. They were going on strike and companies started to hire Chinese immigrants because they worked longer and for cheaper wages. This was at the end of Manifest Destiny which in essence was a white nationalist movement. So instead of blaming the wealthy business owners of taking their jobs, they turned to the unfamiliar face of the Chinese and took it out on them. This is a story that gets repeated every time there’s a lack of jobs. We find an unfamiliar face(immigrant) to blame instead of those who hold all the capital.
The rich agricultural lands of the Monterey, Salinas, and Watsonville area would not have happened without the Chinese laborers. Those rich soils were at one time mosquito infested swamplands. Some one enticed Individual Chinese laborers to drain the swamp lands by giving them 5 acre plots to drain and farm for 5 years. It generally toke the Chinese 2-3 years to drain. After draining the Chinese would farm the productive land until the 5 years was up and leave. I do not know if the Chinese were ever paid, other than to use the land for themselved for farming
Anyone watch "Warrior" on Cinemax? Written by Bruce Lee and based on 1878 chinese immigration.
sadly, even Canada had one, they had a head tax for the chinese- all this is just so sad
I am wondering why there were no German or Italian interment camps but the Japanese Internment camp during the WWII.
The same happened in Canada. Sad.
My fathers family came to America after being enslaved by Nazi germany at a work camp due to their Ukrainian ethnicity. When they arrived in America, they were put down and excluded from most jobs until many decades later. Even though they were let in, they were considered sub-human and referred to as “rats” and other derogatory names.
I took AP US and AP European history in high school in Oregon and none of this was covered. I learned about Japanese internment from reading Snow Falling on Cedars. Disappointed in my education