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(Artifact) https://calisphere.

org/item/ark:/13030/hb9s20070w/
DBQ: What does this painting depict?
Do you think a Chinese immigrant painted this artwork or an American?
Why are there no women in this painting?

Picture
(https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/13030/hb2w100241/)
DBQ questions: What does it look like this man is
doing?
What would be different about this picture if it was taken
in modern times?
Where do you think this person is?
Who do you think took this photo?

Artifact
1892 certificate of residence for Hang Jung: From
Papers relating to Chinese in California

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_American_Certificate_of_Residence_
1892.jpg
DBQs: Who is involved in the making of this paper?
What is this a certificate of?
Who is affected by certificates like this?

Document D

Text: Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882 (http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=47)


DBQ: What did the Chinese Exclusion Act enforce?
How did the Chinese Exclusion Act affect the Chinese people?
Who established this Act?
Would an Act like this one be passed in modern time? Why or why not?

Text: You may need to zoom in on this artifact

DBQs: Who does this document affect?


In what ways does this document affect those people?
Is this a positive or negative affect?

Remarks of the Chinese Merchants of San Francisco upon Governor Bigler's Message,
and Some Common Objections by Lai Chun-cheun
http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb367n993g/?order=2&brand=calisphere
https://sites.google.com/a/adhus.fau.edu/california-gold-rush/iny/chinese-immigrants

DBQs: What are the men doing in this picture?


Where is the setting of this picture?
Who are the men doing the work in this picture?

Document A

http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist383/GoldRush.html
-Does this picture convey negativity towards the Chinese? In what ways?
-What part in this picture displays discrimination against the Chinese?
-What do you know about Chinese discrimination during the gold rush in
California and how does this image relate to this topic?
-How would you feel if there were posters around your town like this one that were
directed at you?

https://harox17.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/chinese-no-no-no.jpg

Artifact:

Document B

http://db.wingluke.org/images/archives/2009_018_025.jpg

DBQ:
-When do you think this article was published?
-What can you depict and or think the men in this artifact are trying to express?
-Who do you think wrote this?
-How is this different or similar to newspapers in current times?

Document C

https://s-media-cacheak0.pinimg.com/736x/1e/33/95/1e3395d29d14994c01d68c2f44ec9a65.jpg
DBQ:
-Who are these men and what are they doing?
-How do you think this men felt doing this kind of labor?

-Why are there not any women in this picture, and what kind of work do you think their
doing?

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