How Did Chinese Workers Affect America

Between 1860 and 1900 the United States treated Chinese workers very poorly and did not pay them much for their services they provided in the jobs that were open to them. This period of time is also when the Gilded Age was occurring in America, so all Chinese workers in the U.S. were most likely working in a gold mine or on railroads, making it easy to classify that they were all be treated the same nationwide. By November, 1865, there were already approximately 4,000 mostly Chinese men working on railroads, and from there the numbers would just continue to increase. Another field they Chinese might have fallen into in the work force is agricultural jobs or even working in factories. Working conditions provided by the U.S. for the Chinese were not much better than how they were treated either. Workers that were participating in the railroad building were in the most danger, with the many different parts and having to transport large pieces of steel. Although the railroad building industry was unsafe as it is, the men working in a factory could be in just as much danger, or maybe more. Factory workers also had it rough in their environment,
Arthur passed the Chinese Exclusion Act. This act was the first ever law implemented to prevent a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the U.S. It put an end to anymore Chinese citizens to enter the United States and declared that all the Chinese immigrants that were already in the U.S. aliens. The act also stated that if the left the United States, they had to obtain certifications to re-enter. After the Chinese Exclusion Act ended in 1892, Congress made the decision to extend it to another 10 years, but this time calling it the Geary Act. This extension was made permanent in 1902 and added even more restriction to the Chinese by requiring each Chinese resident to register and obtain a certificate of residence. If they did not have a certificate or residence, they faced