Introducing 

Prezi AI.

Your new presentation assistant.

Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.

Loading…
Transcript

Chinese Industrial Revolution

Chinese Exclusion Act and Angel Island

  • The Chinese Exclusion Act, signed into law on May 6, 1882, by President Chester A. Arthur, because to many Chinese immigrants came into the United States taking American jobs.
  • Angel Island was a check point and detention center for immigrants in the early twentieth century.
  • Asian and European immigrants were processed at the Angel Island Immigration Station between 1910 and 1940

Where They Inhabited

The Chinese

  • In the 1850s, Chinese workers migrated to the United States first to mine in gold mines, but also to take agricultural jobs, and factory work, especially in the garment industry.
  • Poor people lived in small houses in cramped streets.
  • The houses that the Chinese inhabited, with the poor, were called tenements, or small apartment-like rooms that were often cramped, poorly lit and lacked indoor plumbing and proper ventilation.
  • During the end of the Industrial Revolution, the housing conditions became more healthy and livable.
  • The Chinese that had came into the United States were originally used for fixing railroads because it was dangerous and they needed work.

Works Cited

  • "US History." Economic Growth and the Early Industrial Revolution. N.p.. Web. 6 Dec 2013. <http://www.ushistory.org/us/22a.asp>.
  • "about.com." Overview of the Industrial Revolution. N.p.. Web. 6 Dec 2013. <http://americanhistory.about.com/od/industrialrev/a/indrevoverview.htm>.
  • "Harvard University Library Open Collections Program." Immigration to the United States. ©2013 The President and Fellows of Harvard College. Web. 6 Dec 2013. <http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/exclusion.html>.
  • "© Angel Island Conservancy · Site by HowYouEco." United States Immigration Station (USIS). N.p.. Web. 6 Dec 2013. <http://angelisland.org/history/united-states-immigration-station-usis/>.
  • "Angel Island." The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. N.p.. Web. 6 Dec 2013. <http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/immigration-and-migration/timeline-terms/angel-island>.

Thank you

Chinese Religious and Job Opportunities

  • As the numbers of Chinese laborers increased, so did the strength of anti-Chinese sentiment among other workers in the American economy.
  • Because the Chinese were a different race than the Americans, they were separated from everyone else.
  • The Chinese came to America because they seen an opportunity to work and make a living.
  • The Chinese work to support families back home and to pay off the people that shipped them here from China.
  • So they have no choice but to work for any job or wage.
  • This had finally led to the limitation of Chinese immigrants coming into the United States with the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Chinese Ethnic and Religious Problems

  • The chinese were discriminated a lot, based on there race and religious beliefs.
  • because the chinese were a different race than americans, they had lower wages compared to the americans.
Learn more about creating dynamic, engaging presentations with Prezi