Comparing The Burlingame Treaty And The Chinese Exclusion Act

The Burlingame Treaty and the Chinese Exclusion Act were documents during the 1800s and led to the start of a racist composition. Prodigious amounts of Chinese laborers came to the United States, in 1848, after the discovery of gold in California. The Burlingame Treaty was set in place to delay the entry of Chinese labor, but the document did not to ban Chinese. It had been revised in 1880 and gave the Chinese the protection they needed in order to come to the U.S. The Chinese Exclusion Acts were federal laws put into place to impede Chinese immigrants from coming into the United States. It was approved on May 6, 1882 and was the first significant law restricting immigration into the U.S. The Burlingame Treaty and The Chinese Exclusion Act were enforced because the Chinese came to America and started to take over a lot of American possessions, ethnic discrimination, and the overall growing power of the Chinese immigrants.

The Chinese labor increased (taking American jobs). Started gold mining, factory work, and taking rural jobs. Around 80,000 gold-seekers came to the U.S. for the California Gold Rush. Properties (taking American properties). Homes. Workplaces. Ethnic discrimination. Anti-Chinese hate groups. The Chinese were more equip at building things so Americans got angry. "Although only some of the disturbances were labor related, all of them were rooted in racism and sinophobia (fear and hatred of Chinese)." Paragraph 35. Americans all over were just downright mad the Chinese. "Chinese immigrants worked in numerous occupations after their arrival in America and were often quite successful, despite subtle and overt forms of discrimination." Paragraph 8. "Foreign military intimidation, civil uprisings, and ethnic conflicts became increasingly common." Paragraph