Historical

Asian Americans experienced many tribulations and successes throughout U.S. history. Many of these tribulations were very devastating and done with such hatred and discrimination. Immigrations from China and Japan to North America began when The Gold Rush of 1849 created a demand for laborers in California. Asian American individuals were welcomed to the U.S. as long as their labor was cheap. Little did these groups of individuals know that these travels would forever change their culture both in negative and positive retrospect’s. Not only did these individuals’ lives change but they were in new territory, new languages, new cultures, new grounds and one could only imagine the thoughts and feelings they were faced with. After arriving to the U.S., Asian Americans were discriminated against and banned from having a life equal as that of their neighbors. Legislatures and courts were pressured to bar Asians from certain work. In Washington in 1889, state constitution, in section 33 article 11, prohibited resident aliens from owning land. The Japanese American Citizens League lobbied to place a measure on the general ballot to repeal the Act and won by popular vote in 1956 and this act gave property rights to Asian Americans Immigrants. After their arrival and when the economy started to slow down, Asian Americans were considered a threat to white individuals. Their talent was seen for what it was and other individuals believed that they would start to control all of the jobs. This played a role in the social issues that would begin to follow this economic slowdown. In 1882 federal government passed The Chinese Exclusion Act, which ended the flow of new immigrants from China into the U.S. Discrimination just became worse after that. According to "Center for the Study of Pacific Northwest", “It also fundamentally altered the shape of Asian communities in the United States by banning women immigrants. By 1890, the ratio of men to women among Chinese Americans...