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New Chinese Exclusion Act prohibits Chinese Immigrants from entering the United States! Californians are complaining that the immigrants may impact our economy negatively and take valuable jobs away from American citizens. Hopefully, the new act can successfully stop the overwhelming number of immigrants.

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I can't believe that they are not allowing my family and I to reunite. My family are stuck in China as they went to visit grandparents during holiday, and now they are not allowed to come back. Unless they change the law, I will not be able to see them again. Please take action.

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Beware, the Chinese are coming purposely trying to steal all our jobs. Fight for our jobs. Kick them out! They'll get interviewed at Angel island, if you work there try make sure they don't get in and get them deported back to China. If we complain enough congress we can annoy congress and make them pass a law! Make sure to not lose your job to these Chinese immigrants

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Americans were disgusted by the overflow of Chinese immigrants to Angel Island in California during late 1800s and early-mid 1900s. They disliked them, and wanted as little of these people to come as possible. Likely because of their race, religion, and culture. They made various acts that prevented them from coming, and tried restricting them from entering. They think they take their jobs, and are making the streets overcrowded with their faces. So they wanted to kick them out and restrict them from coming in.(Example is Chinese Exclusion Act, which detained them unless they had relationships to American Citizens from before~)

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Chinese Immigrants need  to get out now!

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Chinese Immigrants need  to get out now!

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Many Americans hated the Chinese due to the fact that they worked for much lower pay. They advocated for all the Chinese to be deported out of America. They also hated them because they didn't have the same religion and looked different.

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Chinese Immigrants are coming from China to our land that we worked so hard for! Our job is for us to not give them any jobs and to try and kick them out. They'll go to the Immigration Station first and get interviewed. Don't help any of them no matter what. They are stealing our jobs and trying to take over our home!

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Newspaper that doesn't want Chinese in the U.S.

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The U.S. government has officially banned the Chinese people from entering the U.S. This is so unfair. I was separated from my family. I have come so far riding in the steerage of the steam ships just to be stopped. I can't believe I have to be using paper sons just to get in!

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Thousands of immigrants ready to enter the USA

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Immigrants from all over the globe are coming to the USA and they are stealing all of our job opportunities, and willing to work for lower pay. We need to prevent our customs from fading, their customs could harm our way of society! We need to limit their access to our country. Some people are coming in to our country as "paper sons" they are being admitted illegally, causing the spirit of being a true and honest American is going to eventually be tarnished.

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After waiting for many years, the Ellis Island Immigration station finally opens and Immigrants are now allowed to immigrate to America for a better life. Immigrants will travel by steamship in the cramped steerage for about 1-2 weeks. After arriving at Ellis Island, Immigrants will go through physical and health examinations. If anyone is suspected of having any disease, they will be detained. The first and second class were priority. They could have their inspections right away.

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This year, many immigrants (specifically from china), have started pouring into our country with supposedly fake ID's, but we have no real proof of this. Many Americans are anxious about their losing their jobs, as new people in our beautiful country are taking jobs away from U.S citizens.

New acts against these chinese immigrants are close to being passed, and our country will not fail just yet.

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Sofa, Kyle, Louisiana (Sophia, Kylie, Lulu)

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Thousands of Immigrants are coming to our land, and its becoming a problem, for our society and country as a whole. They are taking our jobs, and their not learning American customs. Therefore we need to stop Immigrants from Migrating into America! Our beloved country doesn't need Immigrants coming to take our land and jobs, GO BACK TO YOURE COUNTRY!

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The Chinese Exclusion act banned Chinese immigrants from coming int to the United States! This comes after many years of opposition against Chinese immigrants in California. Nativist thought they were a threat against American jobs, and society. Congress finally passed this law, and in more detail Chinese immigrant can only come in if they are the son of a US Citizens. This also caused many immigrants to have fake papers to come in the US.

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In this century, thousands of immigrants have stormed into our Nation and stolen our property from the true owners. We cannot allow this to occur no longer as this image shows the overpopulated amount of Chinese have stolen our security, food, and fortune.

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The California Gold Rush launched an era of Chinese immigration to the United States. Over a period of about 30 years, well over a quarter million Chinese workers entered the country. Were your ancestors among them? Read about when and why they came, and how to learn more about their lives.

Early Chinese Immigration and the California Gold Rush

In 1785, the sailing ship Pallas arrived in Baltimore with 3 Chinese sailors aboard-the earliest documented arrivals from China to the United States. Within the next 3 years, Chinese carpenters and smiths were living in a settlement on Vancouver Island on the opposite coast. Throughout the early 1800s, additional Chinese immigrants trickled into the country, including students, sailors, businessmen, servants, and laborers.

That trickle became a flood when word of the California Gold Rush reached Hong Kong in 1849. Within 2 years, 25,000 Chinese immigrants arrived in California, mostly in San Francisco. i The vast majority of immigrants were men traveling alone, not families. Unfortunately, most did not find success in the gold fields. They found themselves unable to afford to return home, stranded in a land that was strange and unwelcoming.

More Jobs for Chinese Workers

Many Chinese immigrants spread out from California to work in mines all over western North America. After gold was discovered in British Columbia in 1858, Chinese workers who rushed there to mine gold often took jobs in construction, coal mines, and canneries.

In the United States and Canada, thousands of Chinese workers helped construct railroads. Both the California Central Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad hired Chinese men, who earned a reputation for being steady, productive workers. Eventually, as many as 15,000 Chinese workers helped build the Transcontinental Railroad.

Once the railroads began service, industries and farms across the West clamored for Chinese workers. In 1868, the United States and China signed the Burlingame Treaty, making immigration from China easier. Between 1850 and 1882, more than 322,000 Chinese immigrants entered (or re-entered) the United States, many from Guangdong and Fujian provinces.

By the 1870s to 1880s, about 25% of California's workers were Chinese men. So were about a third of the state's small commercial farmers and more than 70% of workers in woolen mills and cigar factories. Chinese-owned businesses i grew across the country, from shrimp fisheries to neighborhood laundries.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Despite their hard work, Chinese immigrants generally remained underpaid. Many were treated poorly in their jobs and communities. As the Chinese presence grew in the United States, so did anti-Chinese discrimination. Some of this hostility was due to ethnic and cultural prejudices. Many feared the low wages accepted by Chinese workers threatened their own incomes. Organized political resistance to Chinese workers increased after the Panic of 1873, a financial crisis that led to severe job shortages.

In the late 1870s, anti-Chinese legislation passed in California and in Congress. Then in 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which completely banned Chinese workers from entering the country for 10 years. Current Chinese residents could not apply for citizenship and could be deported by courts. Those who left the United States would find it difficult-if not impossible-to re-enter. Ten years later, the Chinese Exclusion Act was renewed. Eventually the Act was extended indefinitely and was expanded to ban Chinese immigrants from Hawaii and the Philippines as well. Although many Chinese workers returned home to China, others stayed and formed families in communities across the country.

Despite objections in China, the United States continued to ban entry by Chinese immigrants until 1943. That year, a new law permitted U.S. residents of Chinese descent to apply for citizenship. The first person to naturalize under the new law was Edward Bing Kan, an interpreter for the Immigration and Naturalization Service; his citizenship took effect on 18 January 1944. New national quotas were put in place that continued to restrict immigration from China and other countries until The Immigration Act of 1990.

During the decades of Chinese exclusion, many documents were created about Chinese residents who lived in the United States. Explore the stories of Chinese-American families in North American records.

The First Transcontinental Railroad

Your Chinese American Heritage

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Chinese Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Act

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The California Gold Rush launched an era of Chinese immigration to the United States. Over a period of about 30 years, well over a quarter million Chinese workers entered the country. Were your ancestors among them? Read about when and why they came, and how to learn more about their lives.

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Bad quality apartments known as tenements. Multiple immigrant families are living in one cramped room. Up to 20 people per room. People are getting sick from disease. Lack of light because of no windows. Horrible living conditions some sleep on the floor. Immigrants who don't have skilled jobs in factories are usually forced to live here due to lack of money. More than 1 million people live in tenements in New York City currently. These conditions are unhabitable but immigrants don't have any choice.

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Chinese immigrants on the Angel Island going through inspection

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This is ridiculous! So many Chinese immigrants that may take over our well paid jobs, in addition they are definitely not going to follow our customs and religion, ruining our society. We must stop them from immigrating into our country and ruining our lives, the Chinese Exclusion Act is helping us for sure by blocking them from entering our country.

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Lots of immigrants have come over to our beloved homeland, inflating the economy by working for a ridiculous amount of low pay. They are taking away our jobs one by one! One might remember the railroads, where the stupid Chinese took away lots of jobs from us to work for longer hours and on a lower payroll. Last night, people finally took action, there was a massacre in China Town at San Francisco, California. We will look forward to when Congress will finally pass a law regarding the ridiculous immigrants, and we might have hope after all.

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Lots of chinese imigrants arrived through the ports from Angle Island and Ellis Island. This made lots of Americans upset as they felt like the chinese would take their job and lead to competition for jobs in the cities. This lead to lots of Americans hating chinese, they often harrased them, made fun of them, or even stole money from them. The Americans also had a advantage as they were more respected, and any mistreatments to chinese were not considered breaking a law. The chinese also faced lots problems, they lived in small houses that was overcrowded and were put in horrible conditions with little pay. Therefore Americans hated the chinese and wanted to kick them out of America.

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There's no way they have stopped allowing Chinese Immigrants to enter this country. My siblings were supposed to come yesterday but the newest law forced them to not enter the country. We keep getting on getting discriminated against just for being Asian, this is so unfair. I hope we can get them in illegally otherwise there is a high chance we won't see them again.

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After years of anticipation, Ellis Island has officially opened! Located on the East Coast in New York Harbor, Ellis Island is planning to become one of the biggest immigration centers of the US. Irish immigrant Annie Moore Schayer was the first immigrant to be processed through Ellis Island earlier today. After travelling through the crammed and unsanitary steerage across the sea, immigrants will face legal and health checks before being admitted into the US. After this long process, they will likely find better jobs and opportunities like the European immigrants did before.

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Government officials at Angel Island have uncovered illegal documents forged by Chinese immigrants. A further investigation has found that since the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese "Paper Sons" have increasingly been illegally attempting to enter our proud country, with many succeeding. The population of illegal chinese immigrants are skyrocketing, taking millions of our own citizen's jobs and overcrowding our cities. Luckily, skilled officers are able to quickly identify illegal immigrants. This is not enough. To ensure a safer country without illegal immigrants newer more efficient ways must be found to stem the flow of illegal Chinese coming in.

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Recently, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed, restricting immigration for Chinese immigrants. This has decreased the number of immigrants coming to America. Recently many Chinese immigrants sought after forging fake papers to prove of having a relative in the United States.

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Government officials have found illegal documents. Chinese are trying to get into the US with illegal documents ever since the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Because of the new Chinese Exclusion act, Chinese immigrants can only enter, if they have a parent in the US. "Paper Sons" are fake articles that Chinese immigrants use to pretend to be the son or daughter of a US citizen. Luckily, some of our officials are skilled enough to identify these fake documents. However, a more effective way to identify them has yet to be found.

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The Americans were booting the Chinese out of America.

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The Americans hated the Chinese, and don't want them to live in American since they have different skin color. Therefore, a lot of Americans want to kick the Chinese out of America.

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Chinese immigrants are moving into our beautiful land and stealing the jobs. If you are an owner of a franchise or a factory, do NOT give them jobs. We must kick them out of the country. Beware of them and make sure to not be nice to them.

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This picture shows US citizens protesting about Chinese immigrants stealing jobs. 

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Thousands of immigrants from Europe and Asia, mostly China, are arriving in the US. They are trying to steal our jobs, and willing to work for a lower pay. This is unacceptable. Jobs are to be reserved for US citizens, and not for immigrants. If the government does not make further action on this issue, and don't enforce the immigration security; US citizens will not be able to get a job!

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Chinese immigrants on the ship coming to the West.

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Chinese Immigrants are invading the West !

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Chinese Immigrants are invading the West !

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Chinese Immigrants are coming to the West and invading the community. They don't deserve to be here and should be banned from the West. They are stealing job opportunities.

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Stop the Chinese from stealing our jobs and taking up land!

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This shows people in Seattle kick out Chinese residents

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Chinese people are stealing our jobs and are decreasing the overall job salary, taking our labor jobs and even starting their own businesses! We need to continue doing as this photo shows and kick them out!

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This image shows US citizens protesting to Chinese immigrants 

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Chinese people have been stealing out jobs which is leaving us absolutely jobless ! Are we just going to do nothing and watch the Chinese immigrants steal our jobs ?! We really need to do something about this !

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This picture shows the immigrants lining up to get in.

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Chinese people are going too far! When they get rejected entry to US, they would use paper sons to get in. Are they really that desperate? And the more Chinese coming, the more anti immigration feelings there are!

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Chinese immigrants are forging paper sons to fake their information to get into the US. By faking their information they make it seem like they know someone in the US and try to get in US. This is not accepted in Angel Island where they investigate Chinese to cut out illegal immigrants but they are making illegal papers to get in the US. Americans in the country are losing jobs since most Chinese are taking over jobs since people accept lower pay. If this does not stop this would be a problem and affect other Americans lives across the US.

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I can't believe they've stopped allowing Chinese Immigrants to enter the country. The rest of my family was supposed to come yesterday, but the new law has forced them to stay out. Hopefully we will find a way to sneak them illegally in, or else I will never see my dad and brother again.

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Thousands of Chinese people travelled to America to steal our jobs and take up space while they do nothing useful! We should ban these annoying Chinese people they should have no rights and shouldn't be allowed in our country

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There are thousands of immigrants flooding our country. Taking away our jobs and job advantages, they are a burden to our country and economy. They are using our resources and supplies as well as taking up our land.

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Italian Diaspora! Italy immigrates to the US. 

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Italian Diaspora! Italy immigrates to the US. 

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In the century following the Unification of Italy, nearly 30 million Italians immigrated. Although approximately 10 million returned to Italy, approximately 20 million settled permanently abroad. Most Italians are inpoverated, and some Americans disliked them for stealing their jobs. Italians mostly worked in textile factories, but it still couldn't support their needs.

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This is an image of immigrants coming to the US.

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Thousands of immigrants from Europe and Asia are moving to the US. They are stealing our jobs as they are willing to work for a lower pay. This is not acceptable! The jobs provided are supposed to be for us Americans not other citizens that are not true Americans. The government should stop letting all the immigrants in by making acts against it. If the government doesn't take action, us true Americans wouldn't be able to get a job!

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Chinese immigrants are no longer welcome.

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Not only are new people not allowed to move from China to the U.S., but people who are already living in U.S. might be expelled.

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Welcome to our Historical Headlines Padlet! Please follow the instructions below to complete the activity. If you have any questions, please ask your teacher for help. • Create a newspaper headline as if you were writing in the late 1800s about immigration.

Your post should include:

- A catchy headline

- An image or drawing that represents your headline

-Caption explaining how image connect headline and immigration

• Consider the following when creating your post:

- What was the public opinion about immigration at that time?

-What challenges did immigrants face at the time?

• After posting, read through your classmates' posts and:

- Like at least 1 other post that you found compelling

- Leave a thoughtful comment on at least 1 post

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Welcome to our Historical Headlines Padlet! Please follow the instructions below to complete the activity. If you have any questions, please ask your teacher for help. • Create a newspaper headline as if you were writing in the late 1800s about immigration.

Your post should include:

- A catchy headline

- An image or drawing that represents your headline

-Caption explaining how image connect headline and immigration

• Consider the following when creating your post:

- What was the public opinion about immigration at that time?

-What challenges did immigrants face at the time?

• After posting, read through your classmates' posts and:

- Like at least 1 other post that you found compelling

- Leave a thoughtful comment on at least 1 post

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Welcome to our Historical Headlines Padlet! Please follow the instructions below to complete the activity. If you have any questions, please ask your teacher for help. • Create a newspaper headline as if you were writing in the late 1800s about immigration.

Your post should include:

- A catchy headline

- An image or drawing that represents your headline

-Caption explaining how image connect headline and immigration

• Consider the following when creating your post:

- What was the public opinion about immigration at that time?

-What challenges did immigrants face at the time?

• After posting, read through your classmates' posts and:

- Like at least 1 other post that you found compelling

- Leave a thoughtful comment on at least 1 post

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Welcome to our Historical Headlines Padlet! Please follow the instructions below to complete the activity. If you have any questions, please ask your teacher for help. • Create a newspaper headline as if you were writing in the late 1800s about immigration.

Your post should include:

- A catchy headline

- An image or drawing that represents your headline

-Caption explaining how image connect headline and immigration

• Consider the following when creating your post:

- What was the public opinion about immigration at that time?

-What challenges did immigrants face at the time?

• After posting, read through your classmates' posts and:

- Like at least 1 other post that you found compelling

- Leave a thoughtful comment on at least 1 post