Hostile American attitudes towards Asian immigration, especially the Chinese, remained continuous throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Following political unrest and economic pressures in China, thousands of Chinese immigrants moved to the western regions of the U.S. in search of work. With this movement between 1850 and 1890, more than 300,000 Chinese immigrants entered the United States. Similarly, this migration was accompanied by heightened anti-Chinese sentiment and ethnic discrimination which led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 which prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers. Although the Act was repealed in 1943, the Chinese were still targeted in terms of immigration and received resentment in the workplace. The anti-Chinese
