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Immigrants Coming To America In The Late 19th Century

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The 2016 US election will be an election that no person will forget, especially the fallout after the results for the president-elect were announced. Protests and riots breaking out denying the reality that Trump had won and many threats by some Pro-Trump saying inappropriate racial slurs and many telling non whites to ‘get out of their town/city or else.’ Throughout the years, the United States has been called the land of opportunity, leading to a high immigration rate in the late 1800s. Many foreigners came to the US feeling they would be accepted and allowed a new life. The reality being that they were received poorly and had mountiful acts of racism, both within the law and the populace, thrown upon them. Immigrants coming to America in the late 19th to early 20th century were not welcomed by American citizens including the Chinese, the Germans, and the Irish. …show more content…

Many of the immigrants coming to the West Coast was from Asian descent, including the Chinese. When the economy and wages of the West Coast began to decline, the US Government blamed the Chinese immigrants and decided to take them out. In 1882, the US Government put into effect the Chinese Exclusion Act which states that the US will not accept any Chinese into the US and, if already in the country, cannot stay for more than ninety days. Congress said that “in the opinion of the Government of the United States the coming of Chinese laborers to this country endangers the good order [of the US]” (United States). Not only were the Chinese banned, but the German Americans would not get a say in the

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