Westward Expansion was the territorial growth of the United States from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast in the late 19th century, based on the idea of Manifest Destiny. It affected the world greatly, contributing to the country and its citizens that we see today. Key things like the discovery of gold in California shortly after America had obtained it attracted not only American Citizens to migrate west, but People from other countries were rapidly immigrating to California. From this, the Transcontinental Railroad and its Railway Systems provided the opportunity to do so. Unfortunately, that doesn't necessarily mean all immigrants are allowed citizenship. Certain immigrants faced discrimination and prejudice from the local population …show more content…
solely based on race. What it’s saying is that Chinese people/laborers are not allowed to come into the U.S. and those who already reside there have 90 days to leave. This is fully unfair because even the Chinese immigrants who have already established their citizenship in the United States and are already residing there who have that freedom, don’t have the liberty to stay in the country any longer without proper punishment. These people are coming into our country to seek peace and refuge, and shouldn’t experience the same treatment here as the country they fled from. A second piece of evidence that supports this is from the Memorial of the Chinese in California (1876). "But your memorialists respectfully represent that they are not only aliens, but are also of a different race and color from the American people, and have been subjected to much discrimination, injustice, and oppression, especially since the passage of certain acts of the State and Federal Legislatures, which have been enacted with the avowed purpose of driving them from the country and depriving them of their rights and privileges as men and citizens." This fully supports the previous