Chinese Immigration

There are two types of immigration: old immigration, which peaked in the 1880s and new immigration which peaked in 1907. The Irish are part of the old immigration group. The Irish immigrated with nearly a million people coming into America between 1820 and 1975. Between 1845 and 1850 there was a devastating fungus destroyed Ireland's potato crops which led to the immigration of the Irish in America. The Irish faced many challenges, including anti-Catholicism, stereotypes, labels placed on them, etc. The KKK harassed the Irish as well as the Jews and Blacks. Some of the Irish population that came to America were servants and 70% of the Irish servants, two thirds of them were women. They contributed to the American society by inventing automobiles, …show more content…
The Chinese immigrants came to America beginning in 1849, shortly after the California Gold Rush, and ended abruptly with the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 which made it illegal for the Chinese to immigrate between the 1880s and the 1920s . The main reason why the Chinese came to America was that they had economic hardships due to the growing British dominance over China after Britain defeated China in the Opium War of 1839-1842. Some of the inventions that the Chinese made that we use today in the American society are: alcohol, the mechanical clock, tea production, silk, iron and steel smelting, porcelain, compass, gunpowder, movable-type printing, papermaking, etc. There was a law against the Chinese immigrating which proves that the Chinese were more hated than the Irish and the …show more content…
One of the government restrictions was the Immigration Act of 1924. This act limited the number of immigrants allowed to enter the United States through a national origins quota. It provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the US as of the 1890 national census. This act shows segregation because, it completely excludes the immigrants from Asia. The Immigration Act of 1924 did not affect the groups of immigrants discussed earlier besides the fact that if there were too many Irish people, Jewish people, Chinese people or any other nationality trying to come into the United States than they wouldn’t be able to come in. The Immigration Act of 1965 which is also known as the Hart-Celler Act, which is a new immigration policy based on reuniting immigrant families and attracting skilled labor in the United States. As immigrants entering the United States under the new legislation came increasingly from countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, Greeks, Poles, Portuguese and Italian of whom were seeking to enter the United States claimed that the quota system discriminated against them in favor of Northern Europeans. This act didn’t effect the Irish, Jewish or the