Closing the gate: race, politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act

Machine generated contents note: 1. Very Recklessness of Statesmanship: Explanations for Chinese Exclusion, 1870s-1990s

2. To Fetch Men Wholesale: Framing the Chinese Issue Nationally in the 1860s and the First Chinese Scare in 1869

3. Yan-ki vs. Yan-kee: Americans React to Chinese Laborers in 1870

4. All Sorts of Tricks: Defining Importation, 1871-1875

5. To Overcome the Apathy of National Legislators: The Presidential Campaign of 1876

6. Reign of Terror to Come: Uprising and Red Scare, 1877-1878

7. Unduly Inflated Sack of Very Bad Gas: Denis Kearney Comes East, 1878

8. Rolling in the Dirt: The Fifteen Passenger Bill of 1879

9. Earthquake of Excitement: California and the Exodus East, 1879-1880

10. No Material Difference: The Presidential Campaign of 1880

11. Gate Must Be Closed: The Angell Treaty and the Race to Exclude, 1881-1882

12. Mere Question of Expediency: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

App.: Text of the Chinese Exclusion Act.