This term was also used with negative connotations to persuade voters that Chinese immigration ought to be prohibited.

Eventually, laws such the Naturalization Act of 1870 and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 restricted immigration of Chinese immigrants into the U.S.

The records are a major resource for the study of Chinese immigration and Chinese-American travel, trade, and social history from the late-19th to mid-20th century.

Chinese Immigration Records ... Chinese Immigration Documents Online, through the Archival Research Catalog (ARC). ... Chinese Immigration and Chinese in the United States: Records in NARA's

All comparisons between Irish and German immigration and that of the Chinese are unjust.

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This collection illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. ... Included are photographs,

. . . Whereas the Government of the United States, because of the constantly increasing immigration of Chinese laborers to the territory of the United States, and the embarrassments consequent...

And at a Royal Commission on Chinese Immigration, Chinese were often described as taking work away from white workers.

Chinese labor was suggested, as they had already helped build the California Central Railroad, the railroad from Sacramento to Marysville and the San Jose Railway.