Chinese Exclusion

Chinese Exclusion Act

Examining the text

• What words can you see in the picture?

Open Ended

Write down at least five words you saw in the image?

Digging Deeper

• Some of the names that the Chinese immigrant was called:

• barbarians - lacking (not having) culture

• heathen - doesn't believe in god

• immoral - lacking ethics; wicked, evil

• chinaman - derogatory name for chinese people

• degraded labor - lesser than

Digging Deeper

• The woman represents the female figure Columbia (kind of like a female Uncle Sam)

• She is holding off a mob

• Notice the noose in the background and the "Colored Orphan Asylum"

• The mob is meant to display mostly Irish people and harkens back to the Draft Riots of 1862

Open Ended

What do you think the message of this cartoon is? Use evidence. Explain your evidence.

Open Ended

Based on this video, why did the United States stop Chinese people from immigrating to the United States?

Open Ended

Why do you think John Wise denied Wong Kim Ark entry to the United States?