Asian American History By Missymo 1790 1790 Naturalization Act 1839 First Opium War between China and the U.K. and France 1848 Gold Rush begins 1850 Forien Miners Tax 1854 The People V. Hall 1856 Second Opium War between China and the U.K. and France 1858 Chinese Exclusion Act (California) 1862 Chinese Police Tax 1875 Page Law 1878 In Re Ah Yup 1880 U.S. And China Sign Treaty 1884 Tape V. San Francisco school board 1885 Chinese Primary created in San Francisco 1892 Geary Act 1898 U.S. V. Wong Kim Ark 1905 U.S. Supreme Court requires California to provide education to Chinese Americans 1914 WW1 Begins 1927 Gong Lum V. Rice 1929 Stock Market Crash 1939 WW2 Begins 1941 Japanese forced into internment camps 1942 U.S. enters WW2 1943 Magnuson Act 1946 Internment camps closed 1949 U.S. Breaks ties with China 1949 China becomes a communist country 1950 Korean War Begins 1954 Brown V. Board of Ed. 1965 Immigration Act of 1965 1974 Law V. Nichols 1998 Proposition 227 in California 2016 Proposition 58