PT 10: Prejudice against Chinese Americans

Which racial group did the Fifteenth Amendment exclude?

Chinese Americans

Since when had Chinese laborers migrated to western states?

Since the gold rush

Since the gold rush of the 1840s, Chinese laborers had migrated to western states to work as…

…miners and to help construct the transcontinental railroad.

Men arrived first; then increasing numbers of…

…women and children followed.

By 1870, how big was the Chinese American population?

It had grown large

By 1870, over 60,000 Chinese Americans were living in the United States, many of them in newly established communities in cities such as…

…Sans Francisco

List three states in which state laws still prevented Chinese Americans from voting?

California, Nevada, and Oregan.

In People v. Hall, an 1857 California SUpreme Court case, how did the justices had describe the Chinese as?

An inferior race

What did governors who were against Chinese suffrage suspecting the Chinese immigrants of being?

disloyal and untrustworthy

Which two states refused to ratify the fifteenth amendment?

California and Oregon

Why did California and Oregon refuse to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment?

Because Chinese Americans were barred from voting