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: 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. Document C is a speech from a workingmen of San Francisco on August 16, 1888. In this speech he state how rich men have realized they can use the Chinese as cheap labor so they have imported thousands of Chinese immigrants into the country. Now thousands of Chinese immigrants are occupying every single jobs. The workingman list that the Chinese filled mainly all boot, shoe, and cigar industries. The Chinese immigrants also obtained nearly all farming and sewing jobs.