Chinese Immigration Act Of 1882

Through the decades, hundreds and thousands of immigrants immigrated to the United States. These immigrants sought for better opportunities in life and a second chance to start over. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was passed, not because of the increasing numbers that where entering the United States, but the racism that were boiling in this so called “melting pot” of diversity. Many racial tensions began as Americans saw these Chinese as a threat to their jobs and the economy. During this time the Gold rush was happening in California, which China was in a period of poverty, which lead many Chinese to immigrate to California (Seattle.) Before the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, there was the Page Act of 1875, which denied and restricted many forced laborers coming from Asia. Then, there comes the Immigration Act of 1882, which was a restriction on most “non-desirable” Europeans that limited immigration from certain European region (Immigration Act.) With these two anti-immigration acts placed on the Chinese and some European immigrants, the racism in the United States will only worsen as
This Immigration Act of 1882 had already established categories of foreigners with the immigration enforcement. With the first century of American’s having their independence, many of these immigration became widely open, with some minor restriction from states (Sadowski-Smith). But with the first step of creating a “tax head” was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and then the Immigration Act of 1882, which was passed on August 3rd of the same year that levied a tax on all immigrants coming to the US at the ports for government immigration funds (Immigration Act of 1882). With targeting only certain groups of ethnicity, immigrating to the US became a harder task, plus with racism growing within the