Chinese Exclusion Summary

During Manifest Destiny, the relationship between the United States government and settlers and the Chinese immigrants In the Chinese and American conflict.he Chinese-American immigrants, rather than the American government and settlers, were correct in their actions. Firstly, when the Exclusion Act of 1882 was passed, the Chinese people were restricted from entering and immigrating to the United States. In Some Reasons for Chinese Exclusion, the Federation of Labor argued that “American labor should not be exposed to the destructive competition of aliens who do not, will not, and cannot take up the burdens of American citizenship, whose presence is an economic blight and a patriotic danger.” As a result to the Exclusion Act, many of the Chinese immigrants’ wages were declined and many of them were …show more content…
This demonstrate the favorability of non-Chinese over the Chinese laundromat. Both of the actions from the Yick Wo v. Hopkins case and the Exclusion represented the immorality and racism of the United States government and settlers. The American have chosen different approach to solve the economic disruption in a way that does not allege any race of humans rather than blaming it on a certain one, causing the suffering of Chinese in a nation whose foundation and ideas that they respect and love. The actions of the United States government and settlers forced, as if they were stealing, the Chinese settlers to resign from their jobs, benefiting American labor but displaced Chinese workers. The Chinese workers were innocent during the Manifest Destiny, but the jealousy of the American government caused the hatred toward the Chinese, triggering the racism, imprisonment and discrimination of the Chinese people. As a result, there was a breach between the friendship, peace, and prosperity to fade between the two