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.

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What have you learned?• Use what you have

to answer the Chinese Immigrant Activity Sheet

and to draw Chinese artifacts.