Chinese Exclusion Act
What is Chinese Immigrants getting jobs in the U.S.
This is the Job many Chinese people took during the Gold Rush
What is Working on the California Railroad.
This is one job that the Chinese typically had in the cities of California.
This was one of the benefits of starting a business.
What is cheap equipment.
This is why people wanted the Chinese immigrants to leave
There were not enough jobs for Americans.
This is the main reason for the Chinese Exclusion Act
What is A bad economy and not enough jobs for American Citizens.
What is, It was difficult, dangerous work.
This is another Job that the Chinese had in the cities of California.
What is a cigar store?
This was another benefit of starting a business for the Chinese.
What is earning a lot of money.
This is one of the groups that organized against the Chinese immigrants
The Home Guard
This is the reason the Exclusion Act was repealed.
What is "The United States needed China's help in WWII"
This is what the Railroad was primarily transporting
What is Gold and Gold mining supplies.
This is a reason that Americans did not want the Chinese to get jobs.
What is a bad economy and fewer jobs for Americans.
This was why it was easy to start a business for Chinese who had lived in the country for a long time.
What is "other Chinese people being forced to leave"
This is one of the groups of politicians trying to force the Chinese Immigrants to leave by a certain date.
The committee of fifteen.
This is the term for giving more rights to people born in a country.
What is "Nativism"
What is, The opportunity to earn more money than in China.
This is a reason the Americans wanted Chinese to have jobs to begin with
What is a labor shortage?
This is what happened in Seattle in 1886
What is the Chinese Riots
This is what the Chinese faced when there were not enough jobs for everyone but they tried to stay
Prejudice or Racism.
This is the year the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed.
What is 1882?
This is the year the gold rush in California Began
This is the main Job that the Chinese took when they first began immigrating to the U.S. in large numbers.
What is working on the Railroad?
This is why the Riots took place in 1886
Many Chinese were trying to stay in the country
This is what happened to Chinese immigrants who arrived after 1882
They were not allowed to work.