Asian Immigration

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Asian Immigration

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Chinese

• West Coast Angel Island in San Fran
• Smaller s than Europeans 300,000 from
  1850-1883
• Pull Factors gold, railroads
• Chinese Exclusion Act (1883)

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Thousands of Chinamen died building the
railroads
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Japanese

• 1st to Hawaii later to West Coast
• By 1920 200,000 lived on the West Coast
• Faced discrimination
• Gentlemens Agreement
• Teddy Roosevelt
• Limited Japanese immigration
• End to segregation of Japanese Americans

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Like other immigrants, Asians formed ethnic
communities

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Nativism

• Like European immigrants Asians faced
  discrimination and anti-immigration laws
• Excluded from labor unions
• Chinese Exclusion Act, Gentlemens Agreement