USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Those who still came had to prove they were not laborers. Of the Chinese people who came to the United States between 1850 and 1900, more than half returned to China.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first major wave of Asian immigration occurred in the late 19th century, primarily in Hawaii and the West Coast. Asian Americans experienced exclusion, and limitations to immigration, by the United States law between 1875 and 1965, and were largely prohibited from naturalization until the 1940s.

Detailed explanation-3: -More than 70 percent of all immigrants, however, entered through New York City, which came to be known as the “Golden Door.” Throughout the late 1800s, most immigrants arriving in New York entered at the Castle Garden depot near the tip of Manhattan.

Detailed explanation-4: -San Francisco, California was a primary point of entry for Asians immigrating to the U.S., and new arrivals were housed in quarters located at the Pacific Mail Steamship Company docks on the San Francisco waterfront.

Detailed explanation-5: -Most immigrants in the early 1800s were coming from western and northern European nations like Britain, Ireland, and Germany. Later in the century, more and more were coming from southern and eastern European nations like Italy, Poland, and Greece.