Summary Of The O-The Chinese Exclusion Act

O- The Chinese Exclusion Act was created and signed by Chester A. Arthur. But, it passed again in 1901. James D. Phelan wants to renew the Chinese Exclusion Act. Arthur was president of the United States at the time. Phelan was mayor of San Francisco at the time. This document is a primary source, it was the first major law that limited immigration to the United States. This act was passed in the spring of 1882 and again in 1892. In 1902, the act would come up for another vote. The U.S. was in between the Second Industrial Revolution, Gilded Age, and Progressive Era. Americans experienced exceptional industrial development and economic growth. During the Gilded Age it was mainly about employers and employees that often found themselves going

The Progressive Era is a period of reform to try to change, but change for the better. This is mainly because Americans have made several efforts to try to bring progress to the country.

P- Arthur's primary purpose was that Chinese laborers were prohibited from entering the country for ten years under this act. Federal legislation for the first time prohibited an ethnic working group from entering a community on the grounds that doing so would jeopardize the peace in that area. But Phelan's purpose was that he thought Chinese immigrants were a danger to American employment and were not assimilating into the country. According to Phelan, Chinese people work long hours for little money, have cruel habits, and breed sickness. California has seen comparative success over the past ten years as a result of the Exclusion Laws, which have avoided labor disputes and economic chaos. In "The American Commonwealth," James Bryce examined the anti-Chinese movement in California with an emphasis on political, labor, and racial concerns that would

The fact that it solely depicts the Phelan perspective and that we would not be aware of the American perspective in 1901 is the most noteworthy of these. Phelan is not known to talk to other sources besides the Legislature. In contrast to the serious labor unrest and commercial disruptions that occurred before the Exclusion Laws, the influx has kept California safe and has resulted in comparative prosperity over the past ten years. It states “Legislature submitted by referendum the question of Chinese immigration to a popular vote.” This proves that the only way they were able to reform it was the Legislature with the vote. Phelan had thought they were not adapting to the country and posed a threat to American jobs. Phelan claims that Chinese people are nasty, have harsh habits, and spread illness. They also work long hours for little pay. But several West Coast Americans blamed Chinese laborers for their country's economic woes and falling pay. 0.002 % of the inhabitants of the country were Chinese, notwithstanding their small number. The act's passage marked the culmination of years of white Americans' racial animosity and anti-immigrant agitation, established the legal framework for later restrictions on immigration of other nationalities, and ushered in a new era in which the US transitioned from being a nation that welcomed almost all immigrants to one that enforced gatekeeping. The repeal