In the 1850s, thousands of Chinese immigrants came to the US for the gold rush. Many white Americans did not like that. In the 1880s, Congress passed legislation limiting the immigration and rights of an entire ethnic group, the first and only time to do so. Listen how immigrants persisted anyway, despite the violence and discrimination they faced.
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Sources:
“Chinese Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Acts”
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1866-1898/chinese-immigration
“Chinese Immigrants in the United States” by Madeleine Greene and Jeanne Batalova (Jan 15 2025)
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/chinese-immigrants-united-states
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chinese_Americans
“Chinese Immigration”
https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/chinese-immigration/
“Chinese migration to US is nothing new - but the reasons for recent surge at Southern border are” (Apr 10 2024)
https://umbc.edu/stories/chinese-migrants-to-us/
“Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)”
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/chinese-exclusion-act
“The History of Chinese Immigration to the U.S.” by Qin Wan (2005)
https://www2.hawaii.edu/~sford/alternatv/s05/articles/qin_history.html
“What drove last year’s surge in Chinese migrants at the southern border?” by Huo Jingnan (Aug 9 2024)
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/07/nx-s1-5032835/chinese-migrants-southern-border
“Untold History of Chinese Immigration to America” by the American Old West Tales channel on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzaFH7TBUfU
“Becoming American: The Chinese Experience” 2003 PBS documentary by the P O’Brien channel on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IkDn08i-A4&t=5024s
“Qing China’s Internal Crisis: Land Shortage, Famine, Rural Poverty”
https://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/china_1750_demographic.htm
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