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Strangers From a Different Shore:
The Rising Tide of Chinese Immigration
Melinda SprinkleForest Middle School
Bedford County Public Schools
Chinese Boarding Ship
Immigrant? Or Emigrants?
What would life have been like to leave your home and family to live in another country?
What would boarding the ship have been like?
What pushed Chinese immigrants from their homes?
Push
War Poverty
Few Jobs Famine
What pulled Chinese immigrants to America?
Builders of America– California Gold
Miners– Railroad builders– Farmers– Entrepreneurs
• Ran Laundries,• Boarding Houses,• Restaurants
Pull
Escapefrom War Freedom
Opportunity Jobs
What personal possessions did Chinese immigrants bring with them to America?
Chinese Immigrant Arrival at Angel Island
What happened when immigrants first arrived in California?
Angel Island: Immigration Station
What would have taken place while immigrants were at Angel Island?
Angel Island
Describe what you think an interview would have been like. What questions would an official most likely have asked you?
Chinese Immigrants in Chinatown, San Francisco
Once these immigrants were free to leave Angel Island, where would they most likely have gone?
What would immigrants have found in Chinatown?
ChineseFood
Help fromHelp fromEarlier ArrivalsEarlier Arrivals
ChineseChineseNewspapersNewspapers
Do we still have ethnic neighborhoods in America?
Chinatown, San Francisco Today
Photo reproduced with permission from Rodrigo Antunes.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2239/1973158265_5136d49c02_b.jpg
What have you learned?• Use what you have
to answer the Chinese Immigrant Activity Sheet
and to draw Chinese artifacts.