Chinese Exclusion
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Social Studies, History
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9th Grade
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Easy
Michael Daly
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Examining the text
What words can you see in the picture?
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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
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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
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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