Chinese Immigration




Emilio San Vicente

14/4/20

Mr. Roddy

Chinese immigration

Basically what I read and also what I investigated about this topic was about how in the 1870s and early 1900s, Chinese were moving to California because of the bad economical situation going on in China. Chinese were attracted to the United States because of the gold rush in California where they started by working on mines and also by building railroads, many of these people had the opportunity to open their own businesses like restaurants. Then the number of Chinese increased and there were also more people coming to America. 
 Something interesting to know about this complex and interesting topic is that while the Chinese were working in America, other immigrants like European Americans started to compete for the works that originally for the Chinese community, and this became a very tough situation for these people, making the beginning for racism against them. It became a strength of anti-Chinese sentiment among other workers in the American economy, which made the legislation aimed to limit future immigration of Chinese workers to the United States, this threatened to sour diplomatic relations between the United States and China.
Then we had the Chinese Exclusion Act, which was an immigratiory law passed in 1882 that prevented Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States. The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first immigration law that excluded an entire ethnic group. This act lasted for 10 years and was extended for another 10 years by the 1892 Geary Act, which also required that people who were part of the Chinese community needed to carry identification certificates or face deportation. But this was not the end because it placed more measures and also a number of other restrictions on the Chinese, like limiting their access to bail bonds and allowing entry to only those who were teachers, students, diplomats, and tourists.
When this act ended in 1943, it permitted a quota of 105 Chinese immigrants annually.

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