why was th Asian Exclution Act created?

Answer 1

It's not called the Asian exclusion act. The Chinese Exclusion Act is the first U.S. immigration law that singled out a specific racial group, we Chinese. As always, it was about job availability. See the link here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act_(United_States)

Because the Chinese were prevented from coming to the U.S. during the late 1800s and early 1900s, this is the reason that there are Chinese populations in the Caribbean (like Cuban Chinese, Jamaican Chinese, etc.) and how my great-grandfather went to Hawaii where he worked in the cane fields. Hawaii was called "Sandalwood Mountains". Most Hawaiian cane fields (for sugar plantations) were cleared and planted by Chinese men who were extremely mistreated. The cane leaves would cut their skin as they worked, so that it seemed like they were sweating blood.

Also, many Chinese men were "trapped" here because the law said that if they leave the U.S., they could not re-enter the U.S. And so, these young, hardworking men grew to be old, lonely bachelors who worked their whole life to send money home to their families in China that they missed and loved. Ironically, the Chinese were the ONLY immigrants who never intended to stay; they only came for the work, and then to return home with money to their families in southern China. My great grandfather and my grandfather paid for the materials in the construction of the first water pipes in their remote mountain village when they returned to China.

I was the first to be born in America, but we have been here for 4 generations. The recent Chinese immigrants do not know of or appreciate the physical pain/prejudice of being the first to immigrate to America.

Answer 2

I believe exclusion is spelt without a T. It has been years since I've studied that, but I think it began because so many asians were brought here to do work, many building the first transcontinental railroad and other such projects in the west. It was assumed they would return to their home countries, but most didn't, which frightened and disgruntled white americans. At about the same time a sociologist (from Stanford I believe, but I could be wrong) wrote a book called "Standing Room Only" about the immigrant threat and the phrase "yellow peril" was coined. The exclusion act was obviously created to prevent more asians from immigrating. Too bad the native americans couldn't have passed an exclusion act for the white europeans flooding their country.

Answer 3

I still feel the Chinese Exclusion Act today. Even though people don't want to admit it. I am a 3rd generation Chinese American and I feel and talk like a white man, but the sad thing is, they will never look at me as an equal. I am pretty much a white boy at heart, growing up with American culture and GI Joes but the whites still think of me as a foreigner. This saddens me because I can never go back to China because I don't even speak the language. It's hard being an ABC (American Born Chinese). Many of my FOBie friends don't understand what I am talking about because they still feel part of Taiwan or China, but not me. I will never be fully Chinese and I will never be fully American. The Chinese Exclusion Act makes me really sad because it is evidence that whites hate asian males. But they sure love the asian women.

Answer 4

the Asian Exclusion acts were created because the US people were outraged that the Chinese were taking their jobs for low pay as well as racism because they did not understand their culture..also they didn't want the Asian population to be too much to control and wanted to limit their influence...sound familiar?

Answer 5

while the powers that be enjoyed the influx of cheap/slave aisian workers they soon began to fear the they would be "overrun by orientals" the aisian exclision act was intended to halt the aisan population's growth therby creating a "safe" underclass that could be controlled