The Rock Springs Massacre

One of the first significant pieces of federal legislation aimed at restricting immigration was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which banned Chinese laborers from coming to America. Californians had agitated for the new law, blaming the Chinese, who were willing to work for less, for a decline in wages.The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. Those on the West Coast were especially prone to attribute declining wages and economic ills on the despised Chinese workers. Although the Chinese composed only .002 percent of the nation’s population, Congress passed the exclusion act to placate worker demands and assuage prevalent concerns about maintaining white “racial purity.”

In 1849, an inundation of Chinese immigrants came to the United States to take part in the California gold rush. Relations between the Chinese and Americans started off neutral, but soon conflicts arose. White workers saw Chinese as a threat to their status and tried to solve this issue by passing the Chinese Exclusion Act; this severely limited the number of Chinese allowed to immigrate into the country at the time. Although this compromise satisfied the white protests, it only lead to more conflicts with how the Chinese were treated during immigration. These conflicts would not be resolved for another 61 years.

Chinese Exclusion Act was a law that passed by Congress on May 6 of 1882, that halted the immigration of the Chinese laborers for a span of 10 years and denied neutralization to the existing Chinese in the United States. Following an economic crisis in the late 19th century that left many without jobs and slowed down the expansion of the Western States, many Chinese immigrants laborers were blamed for the falling of wages and lack of employment opportunities. The Chinese laborer faced violence, social isolation, and discriminatory laws that was included in the passage of the exclusion act. Although the act had little effect on the U.S’s economy beyond the Chinese community, it set a lasting effect for immigration policy, it was the first U.S law the refusal to admit members of a specific ethnic group or nationality. Since Chinese immigration was helping the U.S’s economy bloom. Why the sudden stop of only one ethnic group coming to the U.S? What social, economic, and political caused the Chinese Exclusion Act?

With reconstruction over, racism grew even more rampant in America. Jim Crow laws were put into place and unfair sharecropping and tenant farming contracts ran rampant. Another major racial problem was that of the white settlers in the West and the Chinese immigrants that had come over during construction projects such as the building of the Continental Railroad. White laborers were outraged that the Chinese works were taking their jobs and reacted by working as hard as possible to make life hard for them. This came to a head when Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 that ended nearly all Chinese immigration until

The Opelousas Massacre was a horrifying event that occurred on September 28, 1868, in Landry Parish, Louisiana. The riot was sparked by conflict between black freedmen and whites over the political control of the state of Louisiana. This resulted in a massive killing of blacks as whites had the overwhelming advantage in numbers and weapons. What’s most interesting about this case is the mystery surrounding the accounts of deaths. No one can approximately confirm how many people were killed in this massacre. Some sources identify as few as 30 people killed. Other sources estimate killings to over 300 people. The Opelousas Massacre was one of the deadliest riots to occur against African Americans during the era of Reconstruction.

On November 29, 1864 approximately 700 U.S. troops attacked a village of 500 Arapaho and Cheyenne Indians. The village consisted of men, women, and children, who thought they were at peace with the U.S. government. The attack at Sand Creek was part of a chain of bad events and battles the Plains Indian tribes were experiencing with migrating settlers arriving from the east and U.S. soldiers. An 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie condensed Cheyenne and Arapaho land but promised them yearly payments in exchange for safe passage of settlers through their tribal lands. The discovery of gold in Colorado in 1858 brought a greater inflow of settlers coming in a hunt

BANG!!! A gun was fired, people scattered across the fields in panic running as fast as possible people’s hearts racing, the smell of smoke at the tents from the fire, people shouting and searching for their families. The sound of a train passing by when it all stopped, the train was blocking the shots, it was their chance to hide behind behind the hills or run far away were they couldn't see them. Others were brave and picked up rifles or pistols etc and did anything to fight back against the national guards this is what would become one of the worst massacres in Colorado between capital and labor. I was a news reporter and my job was to report the Ludlow Massacre by asking Ludlow survivors.

The definition of a massacre per Dictionary.com is as follows: a deliberately and violently kill of a large number of people. According to Theodore Bliss, people were throwing snow balls at the soldiers, and also saw a stick that looked to be about 3 feet long strike a soldier. One or two snowballs hit the Soldier before the soldier fired (Boston

In any case, financial misery in the 1870s raised hostile to Chinese assumption as white workers and lawmakers censured Chinese work for California's monetary troubles. After expanded savagery and segregation by hostile to Chinese developments, the United States passed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, banning every single Chinese worker into the nation and extremely limiting vast scale Chinese migration. Just vendors, ambassadors, researchers and understudies, voyagers, and offspring of American residents were permitted. Incompletely because of China's interest with the Allied countries amid World War II, the U.S. canceled the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1943 permitting Chinese to wind up naturalized residents and allowed 105 Chinese to go into

Chinese Presence in Australia by Andrew Tran During the late 1800s, many Chinese came to Australia in search of freedom and wealth. However, when the Chinese arrived to Australia, they were treated with great hostility, racism and resentment from the European society. This was due to the very strange and unusual Chinese customs that the Australians/Europeans saw. Soon, the Australian government introduced the ‘White Australia Policy.’

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was a nativist act passed by people who were afraid of a Chinese dominated workforce and the resulting backlash.

In Troutdale, Oregon June 10, 2014 a 15-year-old High School freshman brought an assault rifle to school and shot 14-year-old freshman Emilio Hoffman. Two school resource officers, Nick Thompson and Kyle Harris, were armed security guards at the high school during the shooting. The school Resource Officers were able to respond as armed security before the shooter was able to fire additional rounds into classmates. This timely response should be required for all educational establishments that are prime targets for mentally disturbed gun owners (Barkoukis, Leah). According to a survey asking 100 LBCC student if they agree with campus security to be armed, 72% responded in favor of armed staff (Survey). Only 12% of students disagreed with

As the recession hit, it became attractive to hire Chinese immigrants because they were willing to work for less while whites were not. The presence of Chinese labor became an insecurity for whites as it reminded them that they could easily be replaced as assumptions about white superiority and non-white inferiority came to influence views on work and immigration. As the economy worsened and the panic of 1857 began, racist anti-Chinese rhetoric emerged and spread among labor organizers and “Chinese were accused of being dangerous, deceitful and vicious, criminal, cowardly and inferior from a mental and moral point of view.” White labor organizers used this rhetoric to portray Chinese immigrants as dangerous and as unchristian in ways in

Mountain Meadows Massacre was staged on the Baker- Fancher wagon. The Massacre happened on September 11 ,1857. The Massacre was a huge deal for us in Arkansas. It was wrong on many levels and the people didn’t deserve it. Many things lead up to this tragic event, and many things happened during the this time.

In the 1950’s, Chinese peasants from the Canton Province began arriving on California’s shores. They hoped to escape the extreme poverty and civil unrest to venture to California to strike rich during the Gold Rush. The Chinese immigrants failed to achieve this dream, and remained in California to perform other jobs. When the Transcontinental Railroad began, the Union Pacific nor the Central Pacific wanted to hire the Chinese. By the mid 1860’s, the leaders of Central Pacific had realized that it was difficult recruiting workers and keeping them on the job. The Irish workers they were managing to hire demanded higher wages. Charles Crocker, chief of construction, persuaded his company to employ Chinese immigrants. He argued that the people