Americans used the phrase “California for the Americans” to show that they did not want them (Norton). Chinn states the Central Pacific Company turned to the Chinese for labor and that they turned to Asia when they ran out of local workers. The Chinese Exclusion Act made it difficult for Chinese to enter the country as to slow American job loss. The decrease in American workers caused legislative action which set the racism in law, and helped rationalize the laws that would later separate white and black in American culture. It was another instance of discrimination against people based on their race, not unlike the issues surrounding freed African
Americans used the phrase “California for the Americans” to show that they did not want them (Norton). Chinn states the Central Pacific Company turned to the Chinese for labor and that they turned to Asia when they ran out of local workers. The Chinese Exclusion Act made it difficult for Chinese to enter the country as to slow American job loss. The decrease in American workers caused legislative action which set the racism in law, and helped rationalize the laws that would later separate white and black in American culture. It was another instance of discrimination against people based on their race, not unlike the issues surrounding freed African