All About the Discrimination of the Chinese in 1849

The Chinese quickly became allies when World War I and World War II started because they hoped the Americans would repeal the Chinese Exclusion Act and compromise after the Americans realized they were helping in the wars. They hoped Americans would see how they wanted to show that they respected their new homeland (Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act). After World War II, the Americans began to put the repeal of the Act into thought. In 1943, the Americans finally repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Geary Act (Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, 1943) and compromised. After the Acts were repealed, the Chinese immigrants and Chinese citizens were allowed to become citizens of the United States and California (The Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act). The Americans and Chinese finally compromised.

The Chinese people have faced conflict when they were blamed for almost everything that went wrong with mining and were tortured before they got to America, and some never got there because of discrimination. The Chinese and the United States compromised when the Chinese became our war allies and when the United States repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Geary Act. Chinese people that worked in mines were discriminated against even though they had done nothing wrong and showed no harm to their assailants, but they have also been able to protect themselves by working together before the Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act was passed. The U.S. repealed the Act when they saw what the Chinese did for them. The Chinese were and still are America’s war allies even when they were being tortured and being treated as objects and slaves. This is an example of conflict and compromise in history.