Chinese Exclusion Act Summary

Besides, in congress debates, people talked about racism and discriminatory prejudice against Chinese and African American. One senator said this, “the Caucasian race has a right, considering its superiority of intellectual force and mental vigor, to look down upon every other branch of the human family…we are the superior race today.” The Chinese Exclusion Act began being harsher and harsher. Chinese immigrants who have right to return were also forced to go back to China in 1889 by the Scott Act. Later on, other Asians were also prohibited from entering the United States. This is the first law of prohibition of race-based restrictions. After 1882, Chinese visitors who want admission to America had to take strict screening process so that they could prove that they met the requirements for entering. In 1892, the Geary Act was enacted. The Act has three requirements. One is to extend the ban on Chinese immigrants for ten years. Two is to create a presumption that persons of Chinese descent were residing in the United States unlawfully. Three is a requirement for labor to acquire a certificate confirming their legal status.

During this time the Chinese Exclusion Act was in place, forbidding the entrance of Chinese immigrants into the United States.

The only existing element that was protecting their survival and businesses was the Canadian law. Under the protection of the law, by paying their debts to the country, they were successful in establishing an honest business and commenced the construction of the first Chinatown in Alberta. However, the only element that prevented Chinese Canadians to overpopulate and flourish the Canadian economy further was the Chinese Exclusion Act. This had sparked one of the biggest impacts of Chinese Canadians, which was towards the Canadian law. After adequate input from prominent Chinese Canadian pioneers and landowners, the government and city construction planners had finally allowed the construction of another Chinatown to proceed. This aggravated an outrage across surrounding white communities, provoking undemocratic proposals to pass laws such as forcing all Chinese community members to be photographed and fingerprinted for identification. Although some bills failed to pass, one that marked a historical time period in 1923 was the Chinese Exclusion Act, causing thousands of infuriated Chinese Canadians to send telegrams to the Chinese Minister in London and generals in Canada in behalf of their disapproval. Eventually the campaign consequenced in a failure to propose a wrecking amendment, impacting the lives of many Chinese men without families in the

The Chinese exclusion act was a movement that prohibited Chinese immigration; people used it as a discrimination against Chinese people. In one year Chinese immigration dropped from 40,000 to 23. This shows how people where violent and discriminant to Chinese fellows.

In the United States, we are known as a nation with equal rights. However, in our history, public issues arise jeopardizing the difference between the common good and individual rights. The Chinese Exclusion Act was one issue that was very controversial. Many people immigrate to our nation as a new start, a new beginning. In the Western United States, many immigrants were from China. Nativists believed America is for Americans only and no other race. This made many people hostile and discriminate Chinese people. Eventually, the Chinese Exclusion Act was signed by Chester A Arthur barring Chinese people wishing to immigrate to America. This violated their individual rights because they thought it was for the common good, however it violated our constitution. Violating their individual rights, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion act, disabling many chinese people to emigrate back to America which resulted in opposition and hatred, even though America believed it was for the common good. I believe it was unconstitutional as many Chinese people had no power to voice their opinion.

based on race and defeats the concept of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Protection

Congressman, Robert H. Clancy, supports his argument of racial discrimination towards immigrants in America in the Johnson-Reed Act by using personal experience, appealing to the reader's emotions by telling heart-wrenching stories, and having factual evidence. Throughout his speech, Clancy expresses his concerns for the discrimination against immigrants to Americans using a profound tone to get his point

Throughout history there have been cases of certain groups of people accused of being inferior to others. Most of these accusations are formed from a lack of understanding about people’s traditions, and lifestyles. It becomes increasingly more difficult when foreign cultures try to immigrate to other countries or areas. One case of this was The Chinese Exclusion act, which halted Asian immigration for ten years and prevented the immigrants already here from gaining citizenship. One of the reasons American citizens supported the Chinese Exclusion Act was, they were worried that the Chinese would take all of their jobs and force them to compete with each other. Another reason was, they believed many of the stereotypes that were given to the Chinese immigrants at that time.

The law that frustrated Saum Song Bo was the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, prohibiting immigrations of Chinese to the United States.

One of the first significant pieces of federal legislation aimed at restricting immigration was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which banned Chinese laborers from coming to America. Californians had agitated for the new law, blaming the Chinese, who were willing to work for less, for a decline in wages.The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. Those on the West Coast were especially prone to attribute declining wages and economic ills on the despised Chinese workers. Although the Chinese composed only .002 percent of the nation’s population, Congress passed the exclusion act to placate worker demands and assuage prevalent concerns about maintaining white “racial purity.”

According to the documents, describing the cruel actions of wicked men who intended nothing but hate towards the Chinese and racist comments that targeted specifically the Chinese depicts the idea that the Chinese Exclusion Act should have not been implemented in the United States in the year of 1882. The Chinese were strongly discriminated just like the African American people. To start on with (Document A) about a play divided in four parts called “The Chinese Must Go” by Henry Grimm in 1879, shows of the stereotypes about the Chinese. This document is nothing else but mimicking or impersonating how the Chinese tend to speak English in America. Their English maybe be taken as broken English, another way to describe someone’s struggle to speak

Chinese Exclusion Act was a law that passed by Congress on May 6 of 1882, that halted the immigration of the Chinese laborers for a span of 10 years and denied neutralization to the existing Chinese in the United States. Following an economic crisis in the late 19th century that left many without jobs and slowed down the expansion of the Western States, many Chinese immigrants laborers were blamed for the falling of wages and lack of employment opportunities. The Chinese laborer faced violence, social isolation, and discriminatory laws that was included in the passage of the exclusion act. Although the act had little effect on the U.S’s economy beyond the Chinese community, it set a lasting effect for immigration policy, it was the first U.S law the refusal to admit members of a specific ethnic group or nationality. Since Chinese immigration was helping the U.S’s economy bloom. Why the sudden stop of only one ethnic group coming to the U.S? What social, economic, and political caused the Chinese Exclusion Act?

There were multiple reasons why the Chinese experienced discrimination, most reasons coming from the fact that the Americans felt threatened by the presence of these foreign people they have never had experience with before. The Chinese stole jobs by working for cheap, they had an extremely different culture than the westerners, and the Americans did not like them; this made them targets of discrimination. As stated in the Chinese Exclusion Act, "...the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States be, and the same hereby,suspened" (DOC 1). This quote shows an example of one of the unfair laws made against the Chinese because they were disliked by the Americans. The Chinese Exclusion Act made them easier to be cruel towards.

Chinese immigrants were unable to denounce the law’s extension and its discriminatory nature. In 1902, Congress made the exclusion indefinite after the establishment of a new treaty with the Chinese government in 1894: the treaty became more restrictive of emigration. China later refused to renew the treaty with the United States of America in 1904 because of its acknowledgment of such harsh legislature against the Chinese. In 1905, there was a boycott of goods from the United States in China. Although this did not have the severe impact on American economy that Chinese citizens hoped for, it certainly aided in the rise of Chinese economic nationalism

Americans were suffering from the lack of jobs during this time; therefore, they passed the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to present the Chinese as scapegoats for this situation. Because of the Chinese’s hard work, they were able to gain small amounts of money at a time and became hired by many people. Soon, they have taken all the jobs available, leaving the Americans without much hope of surviving. In the cartoon “What Shall We Do With Our Boys” by George Frederick Keller from the magazine “The San Francisco Illustrated Wasp”, a Chinese man portrayed as a ten armed monster working as much as possible while a group of white men are sitting around doing nothing. In between them is a thin wall with an opening. This implies that many people