The Department of State, Office of the Historian provides contextual background information on the Burlingame-Seward Treaty- an…
This American Yawp Reader source features a North American Review article published by the mayor of San Francisco, James D.…
The Library of Congress features an 1885 appeal to Congress by Californian and other West Coast residents on the issues of…
History Matters features a February 28, 1878 historical appeal by Denis Kearney and H. L. Knight, leaders of the California…
The Online Archive of California features an 1877 address to the United States Congress by the Chinese Six Companies—a benevolent…
The Cornell Legal Information Institute presents a transcript of court documents related to the United States v. Wong Kim Ark…
Stanford University presents an article (2020) from the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project, by Yong Chen, on the…
The American Social History Project provides an account of the beginnings of The Chinese Six Companies, a compilation of the six…
Immigration to the United States features a profile written by Joseph Dewey on the role of the Chinese Six Companies—an…
The New York Times article (2019), by Karen Zraick, provides a perspective on remembering Chinese immigrant workers' role in…
Immigration History features the transcription of the Geary Act passed by Congress in 1892 that extended the Chinese Exclusion Act…
Note: No transcript included.DocsTeach presents the original copy of the Geary Act- the Act that added additional immigration…
Note: See p. 189.Google Books presents an excerpt from the book, The Industrial Revolution in America, Iron and Steel (2005),…
Note: See p. 144-147.Google Books provides an excerpt of William Wei's book, Asians in Colorado: A History of Persecution and…
Google Books features an excerpt from William Wong’s book, Yellow Journalist: Dispatches from Asian America, which gives an…
The Atlantic features a 2018 article by John Hopkins University History Professor Martha Jones that gives an account of the…