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Chinese Exclusion Act: Examining Different Perspectives DBQ

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This assignment contains 4 primary source documents which encourage students to investigate different perspectives of the Chinese Exclusion Act.

The sources include;

(1.) United States Congress: Chinese Exclusion Act (May 1882)


(2.) The Anti-Chinese Wall. Puck Magazine 1882

(3.) “Is it Right for a Chinaman to Jeopardize a White Man’s Dinner?” The Wasp 1885

(4.) Saum Song Bo describing building the pedestal of the statue of Liberty 1886.


Each document has 1-4 questions each to help students analyze the sources and understand the time period. (Total Questions 15.)

Finally students will be given a writing prompt; Applying information from the documents within the activity, citing when necessary, develop a persuasive argument that answers the following question; why did the United States pass the Chinese Exclusion Act?


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