The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
By: John Soennichsen
Series: Landmarks of the American mosaic; Landmarks of the American mosaic
Publisher: Greenwood; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780313379468
Subjects: Government policy; Chinese; Emigration and immigration; Chinese Americans; Immigrants; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Events leading up to the earliest Chinese immigration to America; title: Chinese in the California gold rush; title: Building an American dream; title: The transition period; title: Governor Bigler and the "coolie" problem; title: The panic of 1873; title: Denis Kearney and the anti-Chinese movement; title: Events preceding the Exclusion Act; title: The 1882 Exclusion Act; title: Revision, expansion, and repeal; title: Conclusion what we can learn from the Exclusion Act.