By: Andres Del Valle Brian Goncalves. Lee Chew 1903 Auto biography Independent magazine Lee Chew.

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Immigration of a Chinaman By: Andres Del Valle Brian Goncalves

Transcript of By: Andres Del Valle Brian Goncalves. Lee Chew 1903 Auto biography Independent magazine Lee Chew.

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Immigration of a Chinaman

By: Andres Del Valle Brian Goncalves

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“The Biography of a Chinaman”

• Lee Chew

• 1903

• Auto biography

• Independent magazine

• Lee Chew

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“The Biography of a Chinaman”

• Chinese immigrant

• Born in a village in Canton, China

• Wanted to come to America

Canton,China

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“The Biography of a Chinaman”

• His dad gave him $100

• Hong Kong with 5 other boys

• Got steerage passage on a steamer

• San Francisco

• Steamboat with Immigrants

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“The Biography of a Chinaman”

• Didn’t know how to speak English

• Got a job as a house servant

• But didn’t know anything

• New York

• Chinese men learning English

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“The Biography of a Chinaman”

• Opened his own laundry

• East to Chicago, Detroit, China

• America and went to Buffalo

• Tenement in Buffalo

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Chinese Immigration• Between 1850 and 1882

• About 300,000

• Taiping Rebellion

• Transcontinental railroad

• 1882 Exclusion Act • Chinese coming to

America

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Social Contacts • Other nationalities jealous

• Treatment in U.S is wrong and mean

• China is a peaceful nation Railroad workers

• Tough jobs

• Leave everything behind

• Laundromat workers

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Cultural Context • San Francisco

• Half Starved

• Lonely Chinese being persecuted

• 1870’s

• Scared

• Boat carrying Immigrants

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Work Cited• 1. Archuleta, Elizabeth. "Chinese." American History Through Literature 1870-

1920. Ed. Tom Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst. Vol. 1. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. 225-230. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 26 Feb. 2014.

• 2.Chew, L. (n.d.). The Biography Of A Chinaman. The Independent, 63-77. Retrieved February 26, 2014.

• 3."Chinese Exclusion Act and First Immigration Law Passed, May, 1882-August, 1882." DISCovering U.S. History. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003.Discovering Collection. Gale. Newington School District. 26 Feb. 2014 <http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&source=gale&srcprod=DISC&userGroupName=s0940&prodId=DC&tabID=T001&docId=EJ2104241198&type=retrieve&contentSet=GSRC&version=1.0>.

• 4. Text 8 Reading, Topic: People, The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912, Primary Resources in U.S. History and Literature, Toolbox Library, National Humanities Center. (2005, May). Text 8 Reading, Topic: People, The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912, Primary Resources in U.S. History and Literature, Toolbox Library, National Humanities Center. Retrieved February 26, 2014, from http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/people/text8/text8read.htm