Robert Ives

1. Robert Ives

2. Table of Contents 1. Title Page 2. Table of Contents 3. Chronology of Asian Immigration 1830-1877 4. Timeline Web Resources 1830-1877 5. Chronology of Asian Immigration 1879-1898 6. Timeline Web Resources 1879-1898 7. Chronology of Asian Immigration 1902-1924 8. Timeline Web Resources 1902-1924 9. Chronology of Asian Immigration 1943-1989 10. Timeline Web Resources 1943-1989 11. Social Studies Standards 12. Technology Standards 13. Resources

3. 1830-1877 Chinese “sugar masters” working in Hawaii. Chinese sailors and Peddlers in New York. Central Pacific Railroad Co. recruits Chinese workers for Transcontinental Railroad. First group of Chinese laborers land in Hawaii. Over 20,000 Chinese enter California. Page Law bars entry of Chinese, Japanese , and “Mongolian” criminals and laborers. 1848 1858 1868 1877 1830’s 1852 1865 1875 California passes a law to bar entry of Chinese and “Mongolians.” Japanese Christians in San Francisco establish first immigrant association in US. US and China sign treaty recognizing rights of their citizens to emigrate. 149 Japanese laborers illegally arrive in Hawaii. Gold discovered in California. Chinese begin to arrive.

4. Gold Rush http://www.historichwy49.com/ethnic/chinese.html http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/chinhate.html http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/oakland/culture/ninagr.html Central Pacific Railroad Co. http://www.answers.com/topic/transcontinental-railroad http://www.cprr.org/Museum/Chinese.html http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch405/IUP/rail.html http://www.apa.si.edu/ongoldmountain/gallery2/gallery2.html Page Law http://www.sanfranciscochinatown.com/history/1875pagelaw.html http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC040855/chineseimmigrantstext.htm Burlingame-Seward Treaty: 1868 http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/treaty1868.htm

5. 1879-1898 Residents of many places in American West forcibly expel the Chinese. Chinese immigration to Hawaii ends. California passes law requiring towns and cities to remove Chinese from city limits, but US court declares this law unconstitutional. US court declares that Japanese are ineligible for naturalization. Japanese immigration to Hawaii ends. Chinese Exclusion Law suspends immigration of laborers for 10 years. 1880 1885 1892 1898 1879 1882 1886 1894 Japanese contract laborers arrive in Hawaii under the Irwin Convention. Wong Kim Ark v. US decides that Chinese born in US can’t be stripped of citizenship.. US and China sign treaty giving US the right to limit, but not prohibit, Chinese immigration. Geary Law renews exclusion of Chinese laborers for another ten years and requires all Chinese to register.

6. Chinese Exclusion Law http://www.cetel.org/1882_exclusion.html http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5036/ http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/5views/5views3e.htm http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/CC/pjc1.htm l Wong Kim Ark v. US http://www.cetel.org/1898_wongkim.html http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/422/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Wong_Kim_Ark http://www.historynow.org/03_2005/inter1.html Geary Law http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/chinese_exclusion.html http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/asian_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=37

7. 1902-1924 Arizona passes Alien Land Law- Defines “barred zone” (including India) from which no immigrants can come. Chinese exclusion extended another ten years. 250 Chinese arrested for lack of registration certificates in Boston. “Gentlemen’s Agreement”- Japan stops issuing passports to laborers desiring to emigrate to US. Filipino Laborers arrive in US. Asian Indians driven out of Washington. US declares Asian Indians not eligible for naturalized citizenship. 1922 1924 1903 1910 1902 1907 1923 1917 Immigration Act denies entry to virtually all Asians. Administrative measures used to restrict influx of Asian Indians into California Takao Ozawa v. US declares Asian Indians not eligible for naturalized citizenship. Cable act removes citizenship for woman who marry immigrants ineligible for citizenship. First group of Korean workers arrive in Hawaii. Filipino students arrive in US for Higher education.

8. Gentlemen’s Agreement http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Gentlemen's-Agreement http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_035600_gentlemensag.htm http://www.njamf.com/exclude.htm http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/g/ge/gentlemens_agreement.htm Takao Ozawa v. US http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=260&invol=178 http://brownvboard.org/brwnqurt/03-4/03-4a.htm http://www.historynow.org/03_2005/inter2.html http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/5views/5views4d.htm Immigration Act http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1398.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924 http://showme.missouri.edu/~socbrent/immigr.htm

9. 1943-1989 Congress repeals all Chinese exclusion laws, grants right of naturalization and a small immigration quota to Chinese. US reaches agreement with Vietnam to allow political prisoners to emigrate to the US. All Asian countries given equal quotas for immigrants under Immigration Law. 1956 1975 1943 1965 1989 Over 130,000 refugees enter the US from Vietnam, Kampuchea, and Laos as Communist governments are established there. California repeals its alien land laws.

10. Repeal of Chinese Exclusion Acts http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0811914.html http://www.cetel.org/1943_repeal.html http://sun.menloschool.org/~mbrody/ushistory/angel/exclusion_act/ Immigration Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1965 http://www.cis.org/articles/1995/back395.html http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/soc/immig.html

13. References State Board of Education. (2002). A guide to k-12 program development. State of Connecticut. Chan, Sucheng. (1991). Asian Americans, an Interpretive History. Twayne Publishers, Boston.