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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