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Chinese Immigration and Exclusion

Chinese Immigration 1858 Illustration of the Second Opium War Left image retrieved from the Library of Congress at https://www.loc.gov/item/2002715026/ Right image retrieved from the Library of Congress at https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/september-02 1858 Illustration of the Second Opium War 1857 Illustration of a Chinese miners in California

Transcontinental Railroad Photo retrieved from the Library of Congress at https://www.loc.gov/item/2005677835/ Representatives of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific meet to complete the first transcontinental railroad at Promontory Point, Utah, in 1869.

Chinese Railroad Laborers Photo retrieved from the Library of Congress at https://www.loc.gov/item/2005682948/ A Chinese railroad worker in the Sierra Nevada Mountains

The Chinese Exclusion Act Photo retrieved from the Library of Congress at http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn96061149/1882-05-14/ed-1/seq-1/ An excerpt of the Chinese Exclusion Act, The Daily Astorian, May 14, 1882

Central Historical Question Why was China immigration restricted in 1882?

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