Essays on Chinese Exclusion Act

Industrialization after the Civil War: Thesis and Outline

Part 1 Thesis Statement: Industrialization after the Civil War expanded the United States economy and helped transform American social values, but it also introduced more corruption into the American political sphere.

Part 2

Society: After the civil war, many women started taking work in factories to help support their families. As women began to enter the workforce in increasing numbers, more attention was given to the importance of women’s rights. In 1920, the constitution was amended to give women the right to vote in elections. The economy: industrialization made the average American worker more productive thanks to the factory system, ...

The history of Chinese immigration in the United States has always been complicated. As the USA used to be very attractive country for immigration, Chinese immigrants’ influx reached a high number by the middle of the XIX century. Despite the growing number of immigrants of different ethnicities, racial issue was still critical in the relations between white Americans and Asian immigrants. Racial intolerance often fueled by economic and social problems in the country led to violent actions and tragic consequences. One of such events, named later as the Rock Springs massacre of 1885, has become the result of both ...

Introduction

Throughout history, Chinese people have been migrating to USA in search for greener passage. From 1826 to 1950, they were booking their passage on ships like occidental and oriental steamship company, and pacific mail Steamship Company to travel. The money that they required to fund their journey was mostly borrowed from family members, commercial lenders or district associations. The first Chinese people to arrive in Los Angeles were men, who specialized in manual work. Their work mainly included gardening, laundry, road builders or ranch work. The migration of Chinese people from china was localized and controlled through parts of ...

Question

Answer The Chinese Exclusion Law dealt with the immigration laws for the Chinese people within the United States Government. It prohibited the immigration of Chinese low wage workers, restricting their entry into the United States. There were several cases against as well as for this Law. However, World War II (1939-45) was a major turning point for the Chinese Immigration. US was at war against Japan and in this war, China was one of its closest allies. In this spirit of camaraderie, the Congress government at the time scaled back this law, along with many other exclusion laws; thus ...

(Course/Major)

The immigration debate has been tackled and contested in numerous forums and in the media as well. Many of these issues have centered on the factors of illegal immigrants taking job opportunities from Americans to the issue of the possibility that illegal immigrants pose a heavy expense on state and Federal coffers and the possibility even that illegal immigrants contribute to criminality. More recently, a new angle, or term, has entered the vocabulary of the immigration debate, one that presumes that illegal immigrants have found a new way to claim citizenship in the United States by way of having babies ...

Chinese immigration in American begun back in the 17th century and were influenced by many reasons. According to data collected on immigration, the Chinese immigration to America can be calcified into three categories this being 1849 to 1883, 1883 to 1965 and 1965 to date. These three categories periods categories the immigration of the Chinese into the states. 1848, saw one of the largest waves of immigrants come to the states. The Gold Rush Era was the main reason behind the influx of immigration during this period. 95% of all the immigrants who came from China were recorded to ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Stereotypes in the ‘Rush Hour’ Movies Stereotypes are in general regrettable and avoidable. They sometimes act as a prism through which the society views any actions of a particular community. The extended security checks, people of Middle Eastern origin are subjected to, in Airport securities around the world, shows how some people are naturally put into a particular category because of their origins. President Obama’s speech of how if a black guy walks past, people instinctively lock their car doors is another example of these regrettable stereotypical notions. But then African Americans has been victimized in this nation and stereotyped as ...

Abstract

Introduction The dawn of Chinese immigration to the United States came after the discovery of exploitable gold in 1848, at Sutter’s Mill in California. Drawn to the United States by the possibility of escaping the deteriorating economic standing and political restiveness in China, the Chinese had made their contact with San Francisco in thousands by 1854. Most of them sought to attain prosperity as gold prospectors but as time wore on the majority settled as tradesmen around the western mining fields whilst some sought recruitment as laborers on the transcontinental railway. At this time immigration was largely ...

Racism has been embedded in the American culture for the longest time possible. People of color and those deemed not to show the white people facial features, have been marginalized in the society. Looking back at the history of America where the government enacted the Chinese Exclusion Act. This Act meant that the Chinese had to be put in reserves so as to keep them away from becoming US citizens (Fisher and Shane 2). This act of segregation illustrates how the white race have oppressed other races for over 200 years. This paper will look at how institutional racism ...

Asian immigrants were, for many years, the silent victims of American westward expansion. When Americans were expanding westward in pursuit of Manifest Destiny, they were not doing all the work themselves. Manifest Destiny was the widely-held belief by many Americans that America was destined to expand across the current-day United States. During the 1820s all the way through the 1860s, Americans from the east coast of the United States expanded across the United States, seeking a variety of different things-- some sought land, others new experiences or natural resources. Everyone who participated in the American westward expansion carried some kind ...

Throughout American history, different ethnic groups have faced different challenges. The Native Americans obviously were treated very differently than the Irish, for example, and the Chinese were particularly singled out for treatment which included banning them from attaining citizenship at all in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. African Americans obviously also suffered greatly, not only during slavery but also after its abolishment, and with even greater difficulties being accepted by white society even to this day given their appearance and a complexion that was impossible to hide. Yet other groups attained wide acceptance, including Germans, English, and Scots. Andrew ...

During the antebellum era, Americans vigorously debated the limits of freedom for poor whites, Indians, immigrants, women, and slaves. Discuss these controversies and how they erupted from the social, political, and demographic changes of this era.

Introduction:

Although most of the Negro population was enslaved in the antebellum era this did not mean that there wasn’t any form of debate regarding their freedom which was a great preoccupation for many whites of the upper classes. Naturally enough the plantation class did not want their slaves to be freed so there was an intense debate on this score with the result ...

Introduction:

Amy Tan’s book is intriguing and interesting as it offers us a new perspective on issues such as ethnicity and the assimilation of immigrants which is obviously not something to be taken lightly. Immigrants can come from various countries and in the texts discussed below one can observe what it is like for those who live in a foreign country and come to the US to find a land of opportunity. This is obviously not always the case but several times, immigration can be considered to have been a huge success although there have been times when this has been an abject ...