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//Welcome to ﻿All//, Puck, 1880. Cartoon. [] //Where Both Platforms Agree, Puck,// 1880. Cartoon. [] //Chinese Immigration and the Chinese in the United States//. 9/29/2010. Retrieved from [] Ingersoll, R. 1898. //Should the Chinese be Excluded?// Retrieved from []﻿ Ong, B. //Defining America through Immigration Policy//. Retrieved from [] U.S. Congress, "The Geary Act (text)," in The World at the Fair, Item #103. Retrieved from [] //Chinese Exclusion Act.// Retrieved from []

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 * This Venn diagram references cartoons from the same periodical, but with curiously differening perspectives of Chinese immigration. It may reflect the hypocritical attitude of an American public that believed in the ideals of liberty for the "huddled masses" but was particular about what huddled masses the established population was willing to accept.
 * Ingersoll's essay about the topic indicates that the law excluding the Chinese was passed in 1880, and that both parties used the issue of Chinese immigration for political points. The Burlingame Treaty of 1880 between China and the United States limited/suspended immigration of Chinese to the United States, but upheld the rights of those who were already living in the U.S. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act became law. When that law expired in 1992, it was extended by The Geary Act. These laws gave permission to the U.S. government to arrest, imprison, required forced labor, and deport those who were here illegally, and stayed in effect until the 1920's when other methods of controlling immigration were put into effect, like quotas.
 * The "Long Depression" of the late 1870's and 1880's occurred throughout the world. In the U.S.cheap labor from Chinese workers was resented by workers already in the U.S. who could not find work.
 * It's a wrap, per Joel & Ruth. **