Asian Am 10W Midterm Essay - Context for migration...

Context for migration / imperialism Reception in US (Early / Late) Exclusion (Impact) Reaction / Challenge
Chinese  Treaty of Nanking (European
Imperialism)
 Opium Wars
 Political unrest of Qing dynasty (Taiping
Rebellion 1850-1864)
 Chain migration
 Capitalist Demand for cheap labor
(Labor Recruitment) (Central Pacific
Railroad 1868)
 Chinese portrayed as threat to
white labor, white women, and
American society; prostitution
 “Yellow Peril” image
 Discrimination (Irish labor strikes
(Central Pacific Railroad)
 Angel Island
 Afong Moy
 Chinese coolies
 Page Law
 1882 Chinese Exclusion
Act
 Scott Act 1888
 Geary Act 1892
 Extension Act of 1904
 Immigration Act of 1924
 Wong Kim Ark vs United
States (Scott’s Act)
 Yick Wo v Hopkins
 Paper Sons and Daughters
(Derivative citizenship 
people born to U.S citizens
automatically granted U.S
citizenship)
 Chinese Ladies Garment
Workers Union / National
Dollar Store Strike
Japanese  Meiji restoration (Economics)
 Picture Brides
 US Commodore Matthew Perry
(Convention / Treaty of Kanagawa)
 Recruitment on Sugar Plantations after
1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
(recruitment of families)
 Yellow peril (threat of Japan)
 Asiatic Exclusion League
 California Alien Land Law of 1913
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