Chinese Immigration - Leon

Leon Hoang
IHSS
Mr. Roddy
15 April, 2020
Chinese Immigration
After the American Civil War many immigrants from different countries left theirs and immigrated to the United States. During the period between the 1870s to the early 1900s, almost 12 million foreigners had entered the country. These immigrants were mainly French, German, Irish, and English, most from Europe’s countries. However there was a big group of people that had come from China and other countries in Asia as well. Some of the Chinese had already come during 1849 and 1853 when almost 24,000 Chinese men immigrated to California during the famous Gold Rush. But they obviously were not welcome there and were subject to heavy taxes.
But not all the Chinese immigrants who came to the US stayed there forever or for a long time. A majority of them were single and so returned home to China after earning some money. As I mentioned before many of these immigrants came to the United States for the Gold Rush, either working for other miners or for themselves. But there were some that stayed and opened places like restaraunts, while other worked in minimum-wage jobs in factories and and construction crews.

Eventually during hard times, jobs became scarce and were often competed with. Racial tension and hostility began to mount against the Chinese. All this culminated into the Chinese Exclusion Act. The Chinese Exclusion Act was a law that was passed in 1882, that prohibited Chinese workers and laborers from immigrating to the United States. The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first immigration law that excluded an ethnic group. It also denied the Chinese immigrants from being eligible for becoming a citizen in America. The president, Chester A. Arthur signed it into law on May 6, 1882, after being passed by Congress. The act lasted all the way until 1943, when it was repealed by the Magnuson Act which in turn allowed a yearly amount of 105 Chinese immigrants.  

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