Chinese Exclusion Act Debate: Questions and Points to Consider for Each Side With the readings in Documents

E, F, and G from homework last night, your prior knowledge, and these points to consider, you will make a stance on the Chinese Exclusion Act. emem!er" # During Ci$il War, the %orth passed laws that helped industry &!ecause the 'outhern representati$es couldn(t !lock them). # Congress passed the *acific ailway Act of +,-./ the go$ernment would gi$e companies free land and loan them money to !uild the transcontinental railroad &afterwards, the companies were supposed to sell the land on !oth sides of the track and pay !ack the go$ernment, !ut they ne$er ended up doing that). # 0wo companies competed to get the most land and money/ 1nion *acific &!uilt tracks from East to West) and Central *acific &!uilt tracks from West to East). # 2n 3ay +4, +,-5, the Central *acific ailway met the 1nion *acific ailway in *romontory *oint, 1tah, marking the completion of the transcontinental railroad. 6ottom line/ 0ransition/ the !uilding of the railroad depended on the la!or of hundreds of thousands of workers. 7n the West, most of the people who !uilt the railroad were Chinese. W89: So what are some hypotheses of why they were excluded? Examples/ # 0hey were ;ust racist against the Chinese. # 0he was finished, so they didn(t need the Chinese anymore. # 0he *anic of +,<. meant more people were looking for ;o!s and they didn(t want to compete with Chinese. # Chinese took really low wages and Americans did not work for that little=upset the 1nion distri!ution