Chinese Immigration and Exclusion What factors contributed to the Chinese Exclusion Act? Chinese Immigration and Exclusion.

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Chinese Immigration and Exclusion What factors contributed to the Chinese Exclusion Act? Chinese Immigration and Exclusion

Review During the Civil War, the North passed laws that helped the industry (because the Southern representatives couldn’t block them) Congress passed the Pacific Railway Act of 1863: the government would give RR companies free land and loan them money to build the transcontinental railroad (afterwards, the RR companies were supposed to sell the land on both sides of the track and pay back the government, but they never ended up doing that) Chinese Immigration and Exclusion

Review slide # 2 Two companies competed to get the most land and money: _________ Pacific (built tracks from East to West) and _________ Pacific (built tracks West to East) On May 10, 1869, the Central Pacific Railway met the Union Pacific Railway in _________________ Point, ________, marking the completion of the transcontinental railroad. Chinese Immigration and Exclusion

Timeline—Graphic organizer Use the timeline to generate hypothese in response to this question: What happened between the 1860’s when Chinese were welcomed, and 1882, when they were excluded? Excluded- deny someone access to or bar someone from a place