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economic downturn
in the 1870 an economic downturn resulted in serous unemploent with lead yo politcal motivated outcries aganst imgrants who would work for low wages.the states stardet to pass the immgrantion laws. the federal goverment pass the first immgrantion law in 1882. the exclution acts, a series of restricted laws prohibiting immgrantion, mostly chinese immgrants. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
the first chinese entered californa in 1848 in a few years more and more chinese came,lured by the promise of gam sann or the gold mountain. people forced them out of the gold mountain to low paying jobs. they layed track for the central pacific railroad, reclamed swamp land in the scaramento delta, developed shrimp and abalone fisheries, and provided cheap labor wherever there was work no other group wanted or needed. -
birth
hello my name is adam and i am from france and i wasin the imgration and i waned freedom better jobs and mabey my own land. i moved becasue there was poverty and no jobs. i wrote this becasue i wanted people to know how my life was -
moms and dads
women did not have seprate citizenship br marryng a foren national. now a new person born in the U.S is a citzen, regardless of the parents. those with out true fathers became,"paper sons", or ,"paper daughters".the sons and daoughts brought a paper indefying them as children of amarcan.