WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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Chinese immigrants had to pass a test for US citizenship.
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Chinese immigrants had to work for several months on Angel Island.
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Chinese immigrants had to answer a series of difficult questions about US history.
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Chinese immigrants had to prove they had relatives already living in the United States.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Chinese Exclusion Act also affected the Chinese who had already settled in the United States. Any Chinese who left the United States had to obtain certifications for reentry, and the act made Chinese immigrants permanent aliens by excluding them from U.S. citizenship.
Detailed explanation-2: -Many Americans on the West Coast attributed declining wages and economic ills to Chinese workers. Although the Chinese composed only 0.002 percent of the nation’s population, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act to placate worker demands and assuage concerns about maintaining white “racial purity."
Detailed explanation-3: -This act was the first significant restriction on free immigration in U.S. history, and it excluded Chinese laborers from the country under penalty of imprisonment and deportation. It also made Chinese immigrants permanent aliens by excluding them from U.S. citizenship.
Detailed explanation-4: -They found employment in a variety of service industries and began forming their own neighborhoods, which led to the development of ‘Chinatowns. ‘ They also began introducing a variety of Chinese dishes, based on their area of ancestry in China, which have now become staples of the American diet.
Detailed explanation-5: -Chinese immigrants first flocked to the United States in the 1850s, eager to escape the economic chaos in China and to try their luck at the California gold rush. When the Gold Rush ended, Chinese Americans were considered cheap labor.