Alexis Jones Mr. Monahan October 15, 2009 History 10 In the world of the Chinese Americans’ no rules apply, they are treated in a way that is not acceptable to the American lifestyle. Chinese Americans were not treated equally and their experience in America was getting worse by 1866, because the 14th amendment wasn’t pertaining to them, they were not treated equally by the federal government or society. This event happened in 1854; in the state of California. There was conflict between citizens' and the supreme courts of California, because the Chinese weren't aloud to testify against a white man who was accused of killing a man; the only evidence of the crime taking place were the witnesses. The Chinese were the only witnesses
They were treated in much the same way that the freed slaves had been treated following the Civil War. They were driven from their homes and their jobs, tortured, murdered, and lynched. Thirty-one Chinese miners in Washington State were mutilated and murdered by a group of white vigilantes in what was called the Snake River Massacre. None of the white men were found guilty of the crimes. In Tacoma, six hundred Chinese residents were chased from their homes and their houses were burned, and in Rock Springs, Wyoming, twenty-eight Chinese men were killed and the remaining men were forced out.
With the Anti-Asian movements, racial prejudice, and economic recessions, the federal government passed the Chinese Exclusion Act on July 1st, 1923, shutting down all Chinese immigration. To the Chinese-Canadian community, this day was known as “Humiliation Day” and shop owners refused to open their businesses that day. This was an impossible hurdle for the men’s goal of family reunion, and they entered a period called “bachelor’s society” (“Indepth China: Chinese Immigration”, CBC). The female population in China was left to fend for themselves and contributed to much of the poverty of the lower class (CCNC). From 1923 on, the community thrived on the expansion of small businesses (.
Canada had a very high lack of employment in which the Chinese had good opportunities to get jobs to be able to buy land, grow their own crops to feed their families. In 1858 gold was discovered along the Fraser River in British Columbia. There was a high demand for minors so that encouraged even more Chinese immigrants to come to Canada. To conclude the loyalists had a harder immigration than the Chinese because of the war and the complications of them being exiled from their own
Diego Cervantes Mr.Olazaba English 11 March 29, 2012 During the great depression there was a lot of poverty because the economy was down and families did not have enough recourses to help support their children . People were drinking alcohol instead of supporting their families, mostly men were drinking. On January 16th, 1919 the 18th amendment of the constitution was ratified, prohibition in the United States was a law. Banning of alcohol only made things worse by increasing organized crime, violence, and corruption among law enforcement officials during the next decade. The 18th amendment contributed to the rise of organized crime because it created a lot of underground business.
Chapter 4: Confronting Immigration Exclusion, 1860s-1920s Paper 2 12/10/2012 AAST 201 section: 0102 Ziyu Han Looking backward the human history, Chinese people were one of the ethnic groups that were crowded out by the federal legislation and restricted by the immigration law, but with more a more severe condition. Started from 1849, Chinese people poured into America to join the “Gold Rush”, and meanwhile, Chinese were gathered for the construction of the transcontinental railroad. In 1882, the number of Chinese immigration reached apex of its development. In the same year, the U.S Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act to limit the Chinese immigrations, which was just starting of the abyss of soreness of Chinese immigrants. The
Nike is not the only Western retailer to face criticism over how foreign workers work in poor conditions because these companies want big profits. When a factory collapsed in Bangladesh and killing more than 1000 workers, labor activists blamed American and European retailers because they wanted cheap production and do not care about safe working conditions. Even U.S. workers are suffering because they had their biggest pay drop on record, even though corporate profits have soared.
The horrible murders had innumerable variations in the form and scope of the killing. Chinese soldiers were most often lined up in front of already dug mass graves and either open fired on them, used them for bayonet practice, or used them for their own amusement in killing competitions. Innocent men and women were burned alive, children, toddlers and infants were bayoneted, and life was truly Hell on earth. The treatment of Women in Nanking was even worse than that of the men. Women all over were rounded up and stolen as “prostitutes” (sex-slaves) for the Japanese soldiers.
The treatment and opportunities varied from group to group, but it was overly difficult for all of them. The Chinese settled in New South Wales and Victoria. New immigrants would have to pay a tax of £10 on arrival they would also have to face abuse and violence and this also includes the minors. 2000 Australians at lambing flat attacked the immigrants, and were told to leave Australia. Most whites had a racist attitude towards them during the 1900’s.
“Many Americans held the president personally to blame for the crisis and began calling the shantytowns that unemployed people established on the outskirts of cities “Hoovervilles” (B, 676; CD) The 1930’s also show examples of our continuing inequality in America. As the white males began to lose their jobs and some African Americans continued to work, people believed in this crisis white males had first priority when it came to jobs and started replacing the African Americans. (B, 665; CD) Mexicans during the depression were rounded up and were forced to