Chinese Immigration Act (DBQ)

By Maxwell Merchant

Last updated over 1 year ago

17 Questions

Note from the author:

Adaptation of the Stanford Historical Education Group's Chinese Immigration and Exclusion Lesson Plan.

Essential Question: Why was Chinese immigration restricted in 1882? 

Includes guiding questions broken down by document and a final assessment including a rubric assessing Washington State Social Studies Standard SSS1

Instructions

Answer the 2 review questions
Review the timeline and documents below
Answer the guiding questions for the timeline and each document
Write an argumentative essay responding to the historical question, "Why was Chinese immigration restricted in 1882?"

Required

Review: Why did people immigrate from China to the Western US during the Gilded Age?

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Review: What did Chinese Americans experience after immigrating to the United States?

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Read the timeline carefully. Write a hypothesis for why Chinese immigration was restricted in 1882.

Who wrote the document?

Who did this organization represent?

Why might the members of this organization have held these views?

What evidence does this document provide about why Chinese immigration was restricted in 1882?

How might the economic conditions described Doc B have influenced the opinion of the Pioneer Laundry Workers in Doc A?

Does this document provide evidence about what led to the restriction of Chinese immigration in 1882? Why or why not?

What is Pixley’s argument for ending Chinese immigration?

Where had Pixley been attorney general? How might this corroborate information in the timeline?

Where did Pixley give this testimony? What does this suggest about American voters’ opinions about Chinese immigration?

What evidence does this document provide about why Chinese immigration was restricted in 1882?

Who wrote the document? How was the author’s perspective different than the authors of the other documents?

Despite the differences in perspective, how does the author’s letter corroborate Document A? How does it corroborate Document C?

What evidence does this document provide about why Chinese immigration was restricted in 1882?

Required

Chinese Immigration Act (DBQ)

Review: Why did people immigrate from China to the Western US during the Gilded Age?

Review: What did Chinese Americans experience after immigrating to the United States?

Read the timeline carefully. Write a hypothesis for why Chinese immigration was restricted in 1882.

Who wrote the document?

Who did this organization represent?

Why might the members of this organization have held these views?

What evidence does this document provide about why Chinese immigration was restricted in 1882?

How might the economic conditions described Doc B have influenced the opinion of the Pioneer Laundry Workers in Doc A?

Does this document provide evidence about what led to the restriction of Chinese immigration in 1882? Why or why not?

What is Pixley’s argument for ending Chinese immigration?

Where had Pixley been attorney general? How might this corroborate information in the timeline?

Where did Pixley give this testimony? What does this suggest about American voters’ opinions about Chinese immigration?

What evidence does this document provide about why Chinese immigration was restricted in 1882?

Who wrote the document? How was the author’s perspective different than the authors of the other documents?

Despite the differences in perspective, how does the author’s letter corroborate Document A? How does it corroborate Document C?

What evidence does this document provide about why Chinese immigration was restricted in 1882?

Why was Chinese immigration restricted in 1882? Write a clear thesis sentence and support it with evidence from the documents and the timeline.

Why was Chinese immigration restricted in 1882?
Write a clear thesis sentence and support it with evidence from the documents and the timeline.