1880 Immigration Changes

This country was supposed to be a place of freedom, yet we were stopping people from coming into this country, certain things such as the Chinese exclusion act of 1882, which was then followed by restriction on admitting criminal + mentally ill. Japanese unskilled workers were also restricted. In 1885 a law was passed prohibiting contracted labor workers. Along with push + pull factors; Religious persecution, poverty, overcrowding, political and religious freedom, economic opportunities in the great plains and industrial jobs in the cities. Slums were a way to describe urban life in the northern cities. Wealth flowed during the 18-1900’s but only to the upper class of society.

The general consensus is that the model minority stereotype was created only to retain American stability (ocampo,et. al,683). There are many reasons why pinning Asian Americans as the model minority was convenient for Americans. In the 1870’s, Chinese people migrated to America, mainly California. Asian Americans were suspicious to Californians because there was a thriving vice economy in Chinatown and most Asians were not Christian.

During the 19th century, America promised land and opportunities for all. Though some groups of individuals left their homes willingly in order to take advantage of what America had to offer, others were forced to flee due to inhabitable conditions in their homelands. Both Chinese and Irish immigrants, however, were often disappointed with their treatment upon arrival in America. The Anglo-Saxons that first inhabited America viewed immigrants as uncivilized and quickly declared their superiority, forcing immigrants to work for them. They created laws that prevented groups from accessing similar privileges as them and racialized these groups based on their cultures and languages.

It allowed the Chinese that are students, teachers, merchants, or the ones that are proceeding to the United States to just want to look at the place. The Alien Contract Labor laws of 1885 made it unlawful to send aliens into the United States under contract. The only other exception are aliens who are temporarily in the United States getting married to other foreigners as secretaries, servants, or domestics; actors, artists, lecturers, and domestic servants and skilled workers working in a place that did not get established in the United States. “Increased the head tax to $4.00 (established by the Act of August 3, 1882 and raised subsequently).” The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is similar to the 1885 Alien Contract Labor Law because they both say that they prohibit illegal immigrants to not be in this country. They can possible be in this country if they follow a rule that is said.

The Chinese were not quite exotic for an American audience as in 1850s–1870s they were encouraged to migrate massively to the United States, to work at the railway construction and in the gold fields out West. Their offensive representation in the plays and then in the movies followed the hostile response they met with in states like California and Nevada because there were so many of them, they did not mind worked long hours and for peanuts. Griffith abandoned mockery of the Chinese characters, typical in some of his predecessors’ plays, and made a Chinese man a central character (in Townsend’s play a Chinese was just one of many lesser ethnic types), but still he did not avoid showing him walking with bowed legs, head down, crouching and kneeling – to make sure the spectators will not forget his inferior racial and social position. Also, his posture and his behavior, including cutting his own pigtail leave no doubt that his intensions towards white female protagonist have no sexual character whatsoever and that his servitude is simply a logical consequence of his

While in the beginning, United States and Canada were willing to accept many Japanese immigrants, they soon started to restrict and finally the migration companies had to find new destinations. Owing to the abolishment of slavery in Brazil in 1988, major source of their labor for coffee plantation from Africa were not available. They recruited European laborers form countries such as Italy yet, these were enough and so Japanese companies mutually agreed with the government of Brazil and signed a contract in

In the time that Thoreau’s book was written, many Chinese were immigrating to the United States to build the Transcontinental Railroad. Thoreau includes this parable because he knows a large amount of his audience will be Chinese and he wants to relate to them as well as everyone in the East. 8. The if then statement I will be using is “if men would… Entertainments”. If men looked at reality and didn’t live a misleading life then, things we know would look much more elaborate.

Since this occurred a few years after the Gold Rush, there were already Chines immigrants that were starting to build their new life in the United States and looking for jobs. Since they were successful, the head of the Tong Hook Ton Dramatic Company decide to expand to the east as well. Having heard that the Europeans residing in the East Coast enjoyed watching Chinese inspired theatre they thought that it was a good idea to go to the East Coast. At first they were skeptical about this opportunity and when they arrived to New York, their intuitions were correct. The European Audience did not

Many Americans were afraid that the influx of Catholics coming to the United States would grant the Pope more control over them. This reminded them too much of a king so they were worried about being controlled. To stop from Catholics from having too much sway in America, Americans started treating the them as less than people. Jenkins used the comparison of the prejudice in the 19th century to the prejudice against blacks in the 1960’s and 1970’s. This comparison makes it really easy for people in modern times to understand what it was like to be Catholic back in the 19th century.

In the 19th century, western powers such as Britain were increasing their influence across the world and were engaging in free trade to improve their economic position. One of Britain’s biggest trading partner was China and there was a huge demand for Chinese products such as Chinese tea, porcelain and silk by the British. However, the Chinese had no interest in buying the products offered by the British and this led to Britain facing a huge trade deficit. In response to this, British traders began to illegally ship opium from India to China which led to a widespread addiction to opium in China that caused many economic and social problems in China. In order to control this addiction, the Chinese government led by Lin Zexu confiscated and destroyed over 20,000 chests of opium from British merchants.

But Lincoln’s death was not a limit for the railroad because the Americans looked to bright it to the West and the East for Sierra Nevada in California. Also talks about immigrants that were born in Ireland or elsewhere in Europe. They (immigrants) lured by the promises and high wages commanded by bosses. The problems increased, when the Chinese workers whom built the railroad that crossed the Sierra Nevada mountains in California had social conflicts with California and not only that. Furthermore they had conflicts in their relationship with their superior

Deng Xiaoping’s establishment of international relations and the Four Modernizations affected the Chinese people in a positive way by making China a more modern and industrialized place. Beginning in the early 1900’s, Japan started to conquer and occupy land in China in order to gain more resources. This caused a lot of trouble for the Chinese but with the help of the Allies they managed to drive the Japanese out of China.

The Mongols did not trust the Chinese, so they had foreigners come in to govern the people. They took away the traditional Confucian way of government. In the Middle East, the Mongols took the highest positions, but gave the lower positions to the people showing that there was more trust. The Mongols didn 't disrupt the original government, instead they used it to their advantage. Mongols

In 1885, the Canadian government imposed the Chinese Immigration act. The act made the Chinese the only nationality to pay $50 dollars in order to get into Canada. In addition, this was only implemented to discourage Chinese immigrants for coming into Canada. “In 1885...federal government decided to pass the Chinese Immigrant Act...special $50 head tax on Chinese immigrants…” (Canada in the Making). In spite of this act, this did not stop the Chinese from coming to Canada.