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Museum of Chinese in America

For Students 9th - 10th

From the museum's homepage access a range of resources that preserve and document the history and experience of people of Chinese descent living in America. Find highlights of the museum's collections, a timeline of the history of...

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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Angel Island Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th

Excellent site from the University of Illinois that provides the themes and the poetry of Asian detainees held on Angel Island. Site also includes an Asian American History Timeline, text of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, Angel Island...

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PBS

Pbs: Destination America

For Students 9th - 10th

Why did they come? When did they come? Find out the answers and learn much about immigration to America that has been going on for generations.

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Colorado Historical Society: Chin Lin Sou, Chinese Railroad Laborer [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st

Find out about a Chinese immigrant who, after laboring on the Central Pacific Railroad, became a wealthy miner in Colorado. From the Colorado Historical Society.

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PBS

Pbs: The New Americans

For Students 9th - 10th

This site from PBS chronicles the miniseries coming in April of 2004 entitled "The New Americans." The site documents the new American immigrants: read stories of immigrants from Argentina, China, Mexico, Hungary, Taiwan, Russia, and more.

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US Department of State

Iip Digital: The Immigration Act of 1965

For Students 9th - 10th

A look at the Immigration Act signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965, the ramifications of the law, and the background of immigration law and quotas over several decades of American history.

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Mount Holyoke College

Mt. Hoyoke College: Chinese Exclusion Act

For Students 9th - 10th

Provides full length, section-by-section text of the Chinese Exclusion Act, passed by the 47th U.S. Congress in 1882.

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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: The Chinese Experience in 19th Century America: The Rock Springs Massacre

For Teachers 9th - 10th

This lesson plan is from a larger site examining the Chinese Experience in the United States in the 19th century. Discover the role the official support by the labor movement played in the discrimination, and in the case of the Rock...

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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Land of Golden Dreams: Li's Journey: China to California

For Students Pre-K - 1st

Li is a 14-year-old boy from Guangdong, China, who travels to California during the Gold Rush. Read about his journey on a sailing ship from Southern China to San Francisco. Along the way experience, the sights and sounds of sea travel...

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University of Virginia

Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Foreign Affairs

For Students 9th - 10th

Dealing with foreign affairs was relatively easy for Rutherford B. Hayes. Find out about the conception of the Panama Canal at this time.

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Schools of California Online Resources for Education

Score: Gold Mountain Webquest

For Teachers 3rd - 8th

At this site from the Schools of California Online Resources for Education, students will travel back in time as Chinese Immigrants in this detailed WebQuest. By using the resources and links given, students will file a job profile,...

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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Lee Chew, "The Biography of a Chinaman"

For Teachers 9th - 10th

A story of the rise, the challenges, and the alienation experienced by one Chinese immigrant in America. Questions for discussion included.

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The History Cat

The History Cat: The California Gold Rush

For Students 9th - 10th

Describes the events that led to the California Gold Rush, the lives of the miners, the discrimination faced by Chinese immigrant miners and African Americans, the women who mostly stayed behind when their husbands went west as well as...

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White Pine Pictures

White Pine Pictures: The Road Chosen: The Story of Lem Wong

For Students 9th - 10th

Lem Wong was a Chinese immigrant who came to Canada in 1897. He traveled across Canada for five years working in Chinese laundries. After bringing a wife from China, he had eight children and opened a restaurant in London, Ontario, which...

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Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum

Cprr History Museum: Chinese American Contribution to Transcontinental

For Students 9th - 10th

In April of 1999, Representative John T. Doolittle delivered a speech before the United States House of Representatives commemorating the contribution of Chinese-Americans to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. This site...

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Harp Week

Harp Week: Immigrant and Ethnic America

For Students 9th - 10th

Website with detailed information from Harpers Weekly on various immigrant and ethnic groups that were a vital part of American culture during the second half of the 19th century. Page features the Chinese-American experience, 1857-1892.

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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Classroom: Immigration

For Students 9th - 10th

This website contains an interactive timeline about the history of immigration in the United States.

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Harvard University

Open Collections Program: Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

For Students 9th - 10th

Read about the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, and what led up to the enactment of that law.

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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th

This is a six-page PDF of the short story "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, a story about a conflict between a Chinese-American daughter and a Chinese immigrant mother.

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Digital History

Digital History: The Huddled Masses

For Students 9th - 10th

Links to information about immigration from 1890-1920 include the Statue of Liberty, the Chinese Exclusion Act, Japanese Immigration, kinds of migrants, etc.

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California Digital Library

Loc: Chinese/chinese American Communities Outside San Francisco

For Students 9th - 10th

The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons...

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