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1 How did Americans respond differently to Western European and Asian immigrants? Explain.

2 How did working-class whites greet Chinese immigrants?

3 How did some Americans respond to Jewish immigrants? Why did they do so?

4 How did some American hope to solve the problem of immigration?

5 The Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882: Some Native-born Americans labeled immigration from Asia as the “yellow peril.” Under pressure from California, which already had barred Chinese from owning property and taking skilled jobs, Congress passed this law that sharply limited emigration from Chinas. The “Gentleman’s Agreement,” 1907: President Theodore Roosevelt reached an informal agreement with Japan under which Japan agreed nearly to halt emigration from that country. How did some Americans respond to Asian immigration? Explain.

6 Essential Question: Can people of different backgrounds ever truly get along?

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