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| Framing Soo Hoo Lem Kong |
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Overview:
Students will examine immigration documents and interviews
in order to describe the experience of Chinese immigrants
entering California in the 1900s.
Students will use depth and complexity icons as tools
to develop higher-level thinking skills.
Materials:
Aim/Essential Question
How can immigration documents from the early 1900s help
us understand the Chinese immigrant's experience when
entering the United States?
Background Information:
From 1882 to 1943, the United States government cut back
on the number of Chinese immigrants allowed in the U.S.
Concern over the large number of immigrants and competition
with American workers resulted in the passage of the Chinese
Exclusion Act of May 6, 1882. Enacted by the Forty-seventh
Congress, this law suspended immigration of Chinese laborers
for ten years. The law created a "Section 6"
exempt status for teachers, students, merchants, and travelers,
which allowed Chinese people in these classes admission
to the United States if they could present a certificate
from the Chinese government. (Chinese people who were
already in the United States as of November 17, 1880 were
allowed to stay, and to travel to other countries and
return to the U.S.)
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