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Asian American Discrimination in America 1849-1999

  • Chinese gold rush immagration

    Chinese gold rush immagration
    Chinese came for gold rush later left due to taxes and violence inculding Women being forced into prostitution
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    Chinese Exclution act

    Halted Chinese immigration well into 20th century.
  • Yick wo vs Hopkins

    Yick wo vs Hopkins
    The case was refering to the occurence where only Chinese homeless were fined...
  • Yellow peril

    Yellow peril
    Americans discriminate Asians causing immigration restrictions for immigrents from China.
    This made immigration from China have significantly lower rates of people immigrating to America.
  • Alien land law

    Alien land law
    Japanese Americans are unable to own land in America.
    This shows how there was discrimination in America to Japanese Americans in the Government.
  • Executive Order 9066

    Executive Order 9066
    First World War two discrimintation toward Japenese Americans.
    This shows how the Government thought toward Asian Americans in World War two.
  • Korematsu v. United States

    Korematsu v. United States
    Japanese Americans fight back for their rights and discuss the unconstitutionality of the United States internment camps for japanese americans during World War Two.
  • Liberal Immigration

    Liberal Immigration
    Immigration from asian poulation starting in 1965 ending in 1995 Asian American population increased by 687% between these years
  • Early Twentieth Century

    Early Twentieth Century
    Many of the Vietnamese were denied access to immigration to the United States because of the Vietnam war making them have only one option which is becoming refugees and also sneqaking inside the United States though a boat at the east coast.
  • Immigration from Korean and Filipinos

    Immigration from Korean and Filipinos
    General Immigration for Eastern side of the world from the United States includig Koread and the Filippnise which helped the United States Asian American population rise alot over this time peroid
  • Pacific islanders begin to immagrate to America

    Pacific islanders continue to immagrate to America in a much faster rate. Pacific islanders include those from Somoa, Tonga, Guam, and Melanisia. The population grew to 365,024 pacific islanders, with most of them in the Western American and more concentrated in California.
  • Espionage

    Espionage
    Scientest release discrimination files about Asian American scapegoats not making them valid and permanent un-american and called "foreigners"
  • Discrimantion in U.S. Universties

    Discrimantion in U.S. Universties
    Several suits of discrimation against Asian Americans werent excepted to universities in the United States, disipite being top in cass and willing to pay full price. This is important because it described how asian americans were being discrimated in the United States.