Chinese Immigration Dbq Questions And Answers

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William Perkins attituded towards the Chinese immigrant was hate and disgust. Perkins saw the Chinese people as peasants who could not adopt nor integrate to American culture.

According to Perkins the Chinese immigrnats were not a benefit to the state of California because that the Chinese would not help with the ecomony problem. For example, Chineseman would work and earn a small amount of money but however they would not spend money on anything which in turn creates a flow of money throughtout the state of California. Also accoding to Perkins the Chinese immigrants would buy food because the Chinese had rice that would fill them up with a small amount to eat which means the Chinese immigrants would save a lot of money, enough to send

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From Pitkin’s letter about the reasons for American hostility toward Chinese was because so many of them wanted to work in the mines that would mean that everyone would get paid less if more people started working in the mines so therefore that is what could be infered for the reason why American were so hostility towards the Chinesse immigrant.

The artist attitude towards Chinese immigrants were that they came in many and they would take all the jobs from the American people. The way the artist express their feelings towards Chinese immrigants is by deciting them as people who are doing nothing for the American people, people who are taking jobs, and that there are only men who are working .

The gold rush impacted the Chinese immigrants experience by giving the immigrants the reason to move to America and start working in the mines, also the Chinese immgrants believed that they would get rich from mining so they moved to America so that would start a new life and bring their families too America after earning enoguht money. This gave the Chinese immigrnats a motvied to work hard and work for what they could to proved for their families.

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In addiction to that they were going to treat everyone as equals by restorting a honest republicanism.

The method used in the pamplet to denigrate Chinese immigrants was that it stated that the immigrants were not people at all, however they were just slaves who were trying to take the American people jobs away. Also that the Chinese immigrants were like a disease that needed to go away.

The relationship between the anti-Chinese sentiment and the Labor movement was that the anit-Chinese sentiment made the American people hate the Chinese immigrants by depicting the Chinese as slaves who are just trying to take their jobs away. Furthermore this is related to the Labor movement by the after affect of getting rid of the Chinese immigrants who were taking peoples jobs.The Labor movement established unions which were the backbone and driving force of the Labor movement because without them big business were able to do whatever they wanted without regulation or restrictions.

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