1. Do Now Complete the Do Now worksheet. If you finish, SSR.
2 minute Partner Share
Review as a class

3. Chinese Immigration
Between 1851 and 1882, about 300,000 Chinese arrived on the West Coast
Travel by ship could take up to 3 weeks
Often forced to travel in steerage and sleep on louse-infested beds
Caused the spread of sickness and disease
Chinese man working on the railroad

4. Chinese Immigration Immigration factors:
Poverty in China
Social unrest in China caused by British imperialism and the Industrial Revolution
Gold Rush
Work on American railroads
Farming opportunities in America
Work as domestic servants in America
Why do you believe that they faced more discrimination than fellow immigrants?

5. Nativism Anti-Chinese feeling caused by growing nativism
Many nativists believed that Anglo-Saxons (ancestors of the English) were superior to all other ethnic groups
Therefore, nativists preferred immigrants from Europe to those from Asia and North and South America
Often, religious beliefs were more important to nativists than ethnicity

6. Newspaper writer reporting from San Francisco in 1879 on the dangers of Chinese immigrants.

7. Chinese Exclusion Act
The depression of 1873 intensified anti-Chinese sentiment
Work was scarce
Labor groups put pressure on the government to restrict Asian immigration
Congress passed this act in 1882
Banned entrance to all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists and government officials
This law was not repealed until &feature=related

9. Japanese Immigration
In 1884, the Japanese government allowed Hawaiian planters to recruit Japanese workers
The U.S. annexation of Hawaii in increased Japanese immigration to the west coast
By 1920, more than 200,000 Japanese lived on the west coast

10. Gentlemen’s Agreement
Same fears that led to anti-Chinese reactions extended to Japanese and other Asian immigrants
In 1906, the local school board in San Francisco, California segregated Japanese children by putting them in completely separate schools
The Japanese were outraged and protested

11. Gentlemen’s Agreement
President Theodore Roosevelt made this informal compromise from
In this compromise, Japan agreed to limit the number of unskilled workers that immigrated to the United States if school segregation was eliminated.
Women and children could
still immigrate freely
Led to “picture brides”

12. Partner Work
These are primary documents from the United States Department of Commerce and Labor Immigration Service for the Hong Sling family
(1) Read the application and answer the questions (10 minutes)
(2) Read the interview between Hong Sling and Immigration Inspector Howard D. Ebey and answer the questions (25 minutes)
(3) Read Inspector Ebey’s Recommendation (10 minutes)