Title: Javi's Blog: Why did Americans pass the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
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Javi's Blog
Friday, January 17, 2014
Why did Americans pass the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

Content: If you take a look at document B a political cartoon by Thomas Nast from 1871 we see an illustration of Columbia defending and comforting a Chinese immigrant from other immigrants such as a gang of Irish and German thugs. He is hated because the Irish and Germans believe the Chinese immigrants are taking their jobs as they enter into the United States. Document D is a passage from Lee Chew's, "The Biography of a Chinaman." In this document the passage states the reasons for why the Chinese immigrants are being hated. Lee Chew states that, "It was the jealously of laboring men of other nationalities---especially the Irish---that raised the outcry against the Chinese." So this shows more proof on why the Exclusion Act was passed, it was passed because the Chinese were occupying other immigrant's jobs. In document A and C, these documents support the fact that the Chinese immigrants were occupying not just immigrant but white american jobs as well. In document A we have a script from a play called "The Chinese Must Go" published in San Francisco, 1879. In the script their are two main characters Sam Gin and Ak Coy. These two main characters discuss on how they are better then white Americans and they realize they can do a better job, so they plan on taking American jobs.