Push Factors
This natural disaster, which caused widespread crop failures and starvation in China, pushed many Chinese laborers to seek work overseas in the 1800s.
What was the Northern Chinese Famine?
Many Chinese immigrants came to this country because it had fewer restrictions on personal freedom and offered the possibility of a fresh start.
What was the United States
Passed and Signed in the Spring of 1882, by Congress and President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
As U.S. Secretary of State, he helped negotiate the purchase of Alaska and played a role in the Burlingame-Seward Treaty.
Who is William H. Seward?
This US port city became the main entry point for Chinese immigrants during the 19th century.
What was San Fransisco?
A massive 19th-century rebellion in China, led by Hong Xiuquan, that caused mass destruction and displacement, leading many Chinese to emigrate to the United States and other countries.
What was the Taiping Rebellion?
Was discovered in California in 1849. That drew many immigrants and Americans to the area.
These were communities that were established by Chinese Immigrants, first in San Francisco in 1848.
What are chinatowns?
This U.S. diplomat negotiated a treaty in 1868 that encouraged Chinese immigration and strengthened U.S.-China relations.
Who is Anson Burlingame?
This program, which began in the late 20th century, allowed Chinese students to study in the U.S. while contributing to the growing number of Chinese immigrants in academia and business.
What is the Chinese Student Visa Program?
This conflict, fought from1894 and 1895, between the Qing Dynasty and the Imperial Japanese Empire, was primarily over control of Korea. Japan defeated China and gained the Korean peninsula and the Island of Taiwan.
What was the First Sino Japanese War?
Built from 1863 to 1869, this massive project aimed at connecting the US from east to west. 12,000 Chinese workers helped build the western portion of it.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad.
This 1868 treaty encouraged Chinese immigration to the U.S. and granted China "most favored nation" status before being revised in 1880 due to rising anti-Chinese sentiment.
What is the Burlingame-Seward Treaty?
As the first Chinese-American lawyer, he fought against anti-Chinese discrimination in court, including challenging the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Who is Hong Yen Chang?
This U.S. law, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on December 17, 1943, repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act, allowing Chinese immigrants to become U.S. citizens again. (it not what you think)
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act Repeal Act?
Heavy taxation and government corruption under this declining dynasty made life difficult for many Chinese people, forcing them to emigrate in search of better opportunities.
What is the Qing Dynasty?
Before strict immigration laws were passed, some Chinese immigrants were able to enter the U.S. by claiming to be the children of U.S. citizens and using falsified documents.
What were "Paper sons"?
This philosophy, created by a famous Chinese thinker, became a subject of study at major U.S. universities in the 1870s.
What was Confucianism?
A U.S. senator, known for his anti-Chinese stance, who also played a key role in passing the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
Who is John F. Miller?
This person was a immigrant from china and helped Boeing launch its first military plane, first airmail plane and eventually, its first passenger plane. Securing Boeing as a US commercial Airplane manufacturer
Who was Wong Tsu?
These were a series of wars between China and Britain from 1839-1860 weakened China and led to social and economic instability, pushing many to emigrate.
What were the Opium Wars?
In 1872, the Qing government launched this program, sending Chinese students to study in the U.S. to learn Western science, technology, and military.
What was the Chinese Educational Mission?
In 1885, this violent massacre in Wyoming saw white coal miners attack and kill at least 28 Chinese workers, burning down their homes and driving many out of town.
What was the Rock Springs Massacure?
This Chinese scholar led the Chinese Educational Mission in the 1870s, sending students to study in the U.S.
Who is Yung Wing?
This scientist moved to the U.S. in 1935 to study at MIT and Caltech, where he became a protégé of Theodore von Kármán. A co-founder of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he later returned to China in the mid-1900s to develop the country's space and missile programs, aiming to "improve the lives of the Chinese people."
Who was Qian Xuesen.