The first law passed against illegal immigration was on the year of1882. It was called Chinese Exclusion Act, this law was passed by the congress and signed by the President Chester A. Arthur. The reason why the Chinese came to the U.S. was because the Gold Rush happened during a great period of poverty in China. Most of the people in China decided to migrate to America especially to California. Once they came here and got jobs they were exploited, discriminated, received low wages(the amount of money they got here was a lot more than they would get in their homeland), their were a lot of propaganda and cartoons that resembled a Chinese worker that worked cheap and that they smelled bad. Not only the Chinese had to go through all of these but they also had to deal with the hatred from the American miners who thought that because of the Chinese miners they were not able to get higher wages.
After I finished reading this article I have arrived to a couple questions:
-Why did the Chinese stayed quiet and allowed this law to get passed?
-How come the Chinese Government did not do a thing about what was going on until the year of 1943?
-Would the U.S. have done what they did if the Chinese would have rebelled against what was going on?
-What was the perspective of the Chinese Laborers on the matter?
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