CSPAN3 19th Century Chinese Immigration April 16, 2017
Central to american anxieties related to immigration and who could and who could not become a u. S. Citizen. Often chinese immigrants, the issues start in california and from that moment in california in the 1850s and 1860s, comes a National Phenomenon that will ultimately lead to our first legislation on the federal level that targets a particular nation of origin. In terms of the chinese immigration, there are three major issues that people often focused on. That is Racial Attitudes in the 19th century. There are notions of inferiority and superiority that affected chinese immigrants. People...
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