Transcript Chinese Exclusion Act

Essential Question
What factors led to the
Chinese Exclusion
Act?
Title:
Collect Evidence:
What do you see?
Interpret Evidence:
What do the images
represent or mean?
Draw Conclusions: What does this photograh
reveal about the people or the time period? What
can we learn from it?
Transcontinental Railroad
• Two trains heading
towards one another
• Many people gathered for
a photograph in front of the
trains.
• Man holding a bottle
• The trains are coming together
from different directions –
joining up
• This is a special occasion
• The men are celebrating the
event
This is a photograph of the “joining of the rails” in 1869 when the
Central Pacific railroad tracks met up with the Union Pacific
railroad tracks completing the transcontinental railroad – uniting
the East Coast and the West Coast by train.
Cornell Note-Taking System
Questions answered Notes:
by Notes:
Summarize the main ideas in two or three sentences.
Transcontinental
RR
• During the Civil War, the North
passed laws to support industrial
businesses.
• Congress passed the Pacific
Railway Act of 1863 – giving free
land and loans of money to help RR
companies build the transcontinental
railroad
• Union Pacific Railroad company –
built tracks from East to West.
Central Pacific RR – built tracks
from West to East.
The Building of the railroad depended on the labor of
hundreds of thousands of workers. In the West, most
of the people who built the railroad were Chinese.
Building of the Transcontinental RR
Questions answered
by Notes:
What was the
Pacific Railway
Act of 1863?
The Union
Pacific?
The Central
Pacific?
Chinese Labor?
Notes:
This law gave free land and loans of
money to help build the transcontinental rr
This RR company built tracks from the
East to the West.
This RR company build tracks from the
West to the East
A lot of workers were needed to build the
RR and most of them were Chinese.
Summarize the main ideas in two or three sentences.
The government provided incentives for RR companies to build a
transcontinental rr and the companies used Chinese labor to complete it.
Task: Historical
Detectives
What happened between the 1860s, when
Chinese were welcomed, and 1882 when
they were excluded?
• With a partner, read and
interpret a timeline.
• Hypothesize - fill in the
hypothesis section of the
graphic organizer.
Task: Historical
Detectives
What happened between the 1860s, when
Chinese were welcomed, and 1882 when
they were excluded?
• Count off by A – B – C – D and examine the
primary source document corresponding to your
letter A-D
• Complete the Graphic Organizer for your letter.
• Share your findings with other students to fully
complete your research (Meet with other letters)
Document A
Document B
Document C
Document D
Writing for
Understanding:
Why did
Americans pass
the Chinese
Exclusion Act of
1882?
Use evidence from the
documents and the
timeline to support
your argument