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To learn about the limitations of Chinese Immigration and their experiences, they will analyze, connect, wonder, investigate, construct, express, reflect with primary sources. This lesson allows students to explore Chinese immigration restrictions from China to the United States and the dilemma Chinese immigrants faced during their journey to America. Many of these immigrants left the Guangdong Province in southern China due to natural and human-made disasters and a collapsing rural economy. The immigration station is Angel Island, located in San Francisco Bay, like Ellis Island on the east coast of the United States Angel Island is on the West Coast. Students will recognize Ellis Island, but many are not aware of Angel Island, which also served as a deportation station and was not as welcoming as Ellis Island.
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Thank you 
Penny Quintana
for creating this lesson around Angel Island. Agree, it is important for students to understand this west coast “Ellis Island” and its impact. I took the opportunity to visit the Angel Island Immigration Station (now a museum) when I was doing research on Chinese Immigration. The trip out to the Island is by boat and it is a beautiful hike up to the Station. The preserved dorms are haunting. Walls etched with some poetry scratched on by the immigrants as they waited sometimes for months before the government determined if they could enter the United States or if they were to be returned to China.
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