Chinese immigration to the United States consists of three major waves with the first beginning in the early 19th century. For nearly two centuries, the history of Chinese ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_immigration_to_the_United_States
Feature presentation for teachers on the history of Chinese immigration from the Learning Page, Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/chinese.html
After the Civil War, immigrants again began to stream to the United States. Between 1870 and 1900, nearly 12 million immigrants arrived--more foreign-born people ...
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/chinimms/chinimms.html
A Chinese Puerto Rican is a person who was born, or resides, in Puerto Rico, but whose ancestors came from southern China. In some cases it can mean a person of mixed Chinese and ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_immigration_to_Puerto_Rico
Information about NARA facilities nationwide. ... Introduction. From 1882 to 1943 the United States Government severely curtailed immigration from China to the United States.
http://www.archives.gov/locations/finding-aids/chinese-immigration.html
The Chinese. If not to count the ancestors of the Amerindians who presumably crossed the Bering Strait in prehistoric times, the Chinese were the first Asians immigrants to enter ...
http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Chinese.html
A CBC News special report on the history of Chinese immigration to Canada.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/china/chinese_immigration.html
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 China is one of the oldest cultures in recorded history. For centuries it was a feudal society bound by traditional roles and responsibilities ...
http://www.asianamericans.com/ChineseImmigration.htm
They risked their lives to help build Canada's railroad in the 1880s. But as soon as the work was done, Canada just wanted them gone. It was the beginning of a difficult history ...
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-69-1433/life_society/chinese_immigration/
report of the joint special committee to investigate chinese immigration. washington, government printing office, 1877. congressional testimony of charles crocker and james h.
http://cprr.org/Museum/Chinese_Immigration.html http://chineseimmigration.net
Chinese Immigration and the United States, specifically dealing with treatment and legislation. California California was officially made a US territory in 1848, following the ...
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1130194
Chinese immigration had been a hot-button issue in presidential campaigns of the 1880s; after passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, renewed in 1892 and 1902, anti-Chinese ...
http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/immigration.html
In many respects, the motivations for the Chinese to come to the United States are similar to those of most immigrants. Some came to "The Gold Mountain," and ...
http://nhs.needham.k12.ma.us/cur/kane98/kane_p3_immig/China/china.html
Chinese Immigration in Canada. Chinese immigration to Canada began around 1858 in response to the gold rush in British Columbia.
http://www.ccnc.ca/redress/history.html
Chinese Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Acts, ... Chinese Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Acts. In the 1850s, Chinese workers migrated to the United States, first to ...
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/gp/82014.htm
Genealogical resources available at the National Archives and Records Administration ... Chinese Immigration Records . Chinese Immigration Documents Online, through the Archival ...
http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/heritage/chinese-immigration.html
From 1885 to 1923 Chinese immigration to Canada was discouraged by a head tax, and then the Canadian Chinese Exclusion Act stopped Chinese immigration to Canada for nearly a ...
http://canadaonline.about.com/od/historyofimmigration/a/chineseheadtax.htm
Why Leave China in the first place? There were many reasons why the Chinese left the villages of Taishan in large numbers starting around the middle 1800s
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