Immigration During the Gilded Age

(Chinese Exclusion Act-1882)

As the United States and most European nations were rapidly expanding, many immigrants were migrating from their impoverished homelands to achieve their American dreams.  Although Europeans and Americans alike were not afraid to force open the doors of isolated nations, such as China and Japan.  Millions of Europeans migrated to the Asian nations.  But when Asians began migrating to the United States, the US created several laws preventing mass migrations from Asia.  Many Asians were unwelcomed in the United States.  Large groups of Asians, manly Chinese, would gather in areas of big cities called Chinatown.