Since 1848 when the gold was first discovered in California, waves of immigrants from around the world traveled to mine for gold, especially Chinese. Chinese immigrants arrived by all means of transport; and despite barriers, they flooded into the United States. In 1880, according to the “Background Timeline of Chinese Immigration and Exclusion”, the Chinese population in the America passed one hundred thousand and seemed to still increasing rapidly. Such large number of “foreigners” raised the feelings of nativism and opposing among the Americans. Thus, in 1882, the United States government passed the Chinese Exclusion Act to limit the amount of immigrants legally crossing the border. This law stem from the fact that Chinese-American, with
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Some said the Chinese took all the jobs because they worked for very low wages. For instance, in the political cartoon “The Chinese Question” in 1871, on the wall behind Columbia and the miserable Chinese were words said the “Chinaman” worked “cheap” because he was a “barbarian”. That is one point of view. Some, on the other hand, opposed it and said Chinese got the jobs because they were smarter and more hard-working than the Americans. The “Autobiography of a Chinese Immigrant” of Lee Chew published in 1903, for example, wrote that “The cheap labor cry was always a falsehood. Their labor was never cheap, and is not cheap now. It has always commanded the highest market price. But the trouble is that the Chinese are such excellent and faithful workers that bosses will have no others when they can get them.”. He accused that “It was the jealousy of laboring men of other nationalities - especially the Irish - that raised all the outcry against the Chinese”. In my opinion, both views contributed to the Chinese Exclusion Act of …show more content…
Government passed the Chinese Exclusion Act is the “terrible competitions between our own people” which were brought about by “hundreds and thousands of Mongolians” controlled the entire industry, quoted from the speech “Workingmen of San Francisco” on August 16, 1888. As reported by the speakers, “Chinese slave labor” monopolized the entire industries: from “the boot, shoe, and cigar industries” to the “manufacture of men’s overalls and women’s and children’s underwear”, from “the farming done to supply the market” to etc. Moreover, the orators accused that Chinese immigrants, with the power they held, enslaved the American labors. Therefore, they said Americans couldn’t endure it any longer and urged the government to step
Some said the Chinese took all the jobs because they worked for very low wages. For instance, in the political cartoon “The Chinese Question” in 1871, on the wall behind Columbia and the miserable Chinese were words said the “Chinaman” worked “cheap” because he was a “barbarian”. That is one point of view. Some, on the other hand, opposed it and said Chinese got the jobs because they were smarter and more hard-working than the Americans. The “Autobiography of a Chinese Immigrant” of Lee Chew published in 1903, for example, wrote that “The cheap labor cry was always a falsehood. Their labor was never cheap, and is not cheap now. It has always commanded the highest market price. But the trouble is that the Chinese are such excellent and faithful workers that bosses will have no others when they can get them.”. He accused that “It was the jealousy of laboring men of other nationalities - especially the Irish - that raised all the outcry against the Chinese”. In my opinion, both views contributed to the Chinese Exclusion Act of …show more content…
Government passed the Chinese Exclusion Act is the “terrible competitions between our own people” which were brought about by “hundreds and thousands of Mongolians” controlled the entire industry, quoted from the speech “Workingmen of San Francisco” on August 16, 1888. As reported by the speakers, “Chinese slave labor” monopolized the entire industries: from “the boot, shoe, and cigar industries” to the “manufacture of men’s overalls and women’s and children’s underwear”, from “the farming done to supply the market” to etc. Moreover, the orators accused that Chinese immigrants, with the power they held, enslaved the American labors. Therefore, they said Americans couldn’t endure it any longer and urged the government to step