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Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
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- The most restrictive and repressive immigration law in US histroy
- 300,000 chinese migrated to us between 1849-82, 100k in us in 1880 - All laborers banned from entry - Only chinese who could enter us were merchants, teachers, diplomats, college-age students, and tourists |
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why did the people feel threatened from the Chinese
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European americans aruged that these ppl always worked for lower wages for far less. From working class and labor unions.
The other fear- china was a huge country with a lot of ppl, and that these chinese would be the wedge that opened up immigration to many many more |
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The Gentleman's Agreement. Exculded the Japanese. 1907
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Japanese started migrating in larger numbers to hawaii, and the to the west coast, and then replaced the low wage chinese labor. They went into agriculture, which was booming in CA at the time.
Japanese saw what was happening to the chinese, and felt it was going to happen them, and the japanese gov't interceded, and agreed to stop migration on their side by banning passports and visas |
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Imigration act of 1917
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Extended the categories of people who were denied entry. Homosexual, idiots, feeble minded, a literacy test, insane persons, epileptics, anarchists, a head tax of a 8 dollars
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informal ways to get around imigration act of 1917
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Literacy test was waved
Many of these categories waved because of lobbyists in congress, not a good infrastructure to support these laws, needed |
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1924, national origins Act
in relation to mexican immigration |
The act wanted to maintain the racial makeup of the population of the country currently, by reducing the amount of non anglo-saxon immigration. They made quotas based on the population
- Immigration law designed to limit immigration overall - Designed to control the nature of the immigration so that it would reflect the racial make up of the country - Quotas originally based on 1910 census, but that was still deemed too skewed in favor of Southern Europeans, changed paramenters to be based on the population (western hemisphere wasn't on the list, so they could theroretically come in any numbers, the lobbists based in southwest, who didn't want mexican immigration limited by those ) |
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why lobbyists had a lot of power on the immigration laws
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Today california is the most important agricultural state
80%wine, 25% fruit and veggies of the US Texas is also a very imiportant agriculturally, and in the 1920s, it made 20%-30% of the world's cotton crop. This is why they are so important and influential in the immigration laws. |
