Immigration from Asia

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Immigration from Asia

• Todays LEQ What motivated many non-European
  immigrants to the U.S. during the 19th century?
  How did their experience compare to Euroepeans?

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Immigrants Arrive from China

• Why? Economic Opportunities!
• Helped build Transcontinental Railroad
• Mined for gold in the West
• Gold Mountain
• Worked in Agriculture
• Farms in CA, sugar plantations in Hawaii

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Immigrants Arrive from China

• Most Chinese immigrants were men
• They expected to work hard and return home rich
  but usually ended up staying in the U.S.
• Earned the reputation as reliable, steady
  workers Employers preferred hiring them
• Willing to do the stoop labor whites not
  willing to do
• Accepted lower pay
• Created friction between working-class whites
  Chinese immigrants

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Reaction to Chinese Immigrants

• Magnet Strategy Read the subsection, The
  Exclusion Act Shutting the Doors on the Chinese
  on page 195 and record five key terms or phrases.
• Exchange ideas with your shoulder partner and
  collaborate on a final set of key terms or
  phrases a summary paragraph. Be ready to
  share!

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Did you write down these key terms?

• Depression drought
• scapegoat
• Easy target
• Mob violence
• Nativism the policy of favoring the interests
  of native-born Americans over those of immigrants
• racist
• Chinese Exclusion Act

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Angel Island The Ellis Island of the West

• Designed to enforce Chinese Exclusion Act
• Located in San Francisco
• Asian immigrants faced horrible conditions and
  processing could take weeks or months

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Other Asian Immigrants

• Exclusion Act created labor shortages hired more
  workers from Japan, Korea, Philippines
• Faced the same discrimination ?
• Schools were segregated in San Francisco
• Japans government protested and President
  Roosevelt became involved
• Convinced San Franciscos school board to repeal
  segregation order
• American and Japanese governments carry out
  secret negotiations known as the Gentlemens
  Agreement
• Japanese officials agreed not to allow laborers
  to emigrate to the U.S. but insisted wives,
  children, and parents of Japanese in the U.S. be
  allowed to immigrate

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Voices from Angel Island

• Youll hear seven quotations and seven poems
  written by actual Chinese immigrants
• Well pause after each one. You will be asked to
  write a brief poem about that Chinese immigrants
  experience
• Youll be using your mini-poems for an activity
  at the end (hint, hint)

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Example

• Locked in a box with only room to think.
• Feeling depressed must cope with my ink.

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Tying it all together

• Youll be tying together your mini poems
• Be sure to address the experiences of Chinese
  immigrants on Angel Island and portray feelings
  the detainees might have had about their
  detention.
• Requirements
• 12 lines minimum
• Add in 3 appropriate images that illustrate the
  lines of your poem. They may be placed anywhere
  on the page.