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Timeline of Chinese immigration to the United States

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| 1860 || || Speech/writing || California || Pun Chi, a young Chinese merchant, delivers an impassioned appeal to the United States Congress, arguing against the decision in ''People v. Hall''. The speech is translated from Chinese to English in 1870 by William Speer, a Presbyterian minister and missionary in San Francisco’s Chinatown.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6618|title = “We Chinese Are Viewed Like Thieves and Enemies”: Pun Chi Appeals to Congress to Protect the Rights of Chinese, ca. 1860|publisher = History Matters|accessdate = May 13, 2017}}</ref>
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| 1862 || February 19 || Legislation || United States California || The [[w:37th United States Congress|37th United States Congress]] California state legislature passes a law, known as the [[{{w:Anti-Coolie Act|Anti-Coolie Act]], }} forbidding participation by American citizens in the "coolie" trade from China, namely, trade in bonded Chinese labor. The Act also reinforces existing regulations on the conditions of transportation (as codified previously in modifications to the [[{{w:Steerage Act of 1819|Steerage Act of 1819]] }} and in the [[{{w:Carriage of Passengers Act of 1855|Carriage of Passengers Act of 1855]]}}).<ref>{{cite web|url = http://legisworks.org/sal/12/stats/STATUTE-12-Pg340.pdf|title = An Act to Prohibit the "Coolie Trade" by American Citizens in American Vessels|date = February 19, 1862|accessdate = May 29, 2017}}</ref><ref name=driven-out/>{{rp|58-59}}
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| 1862 || April 26 || Tax || California || California passes the Chinese Police Tax Law, levying a $2.50 fee on all Chinese living in the state, with a few exceptions (those engaged in production of specific goods including sugar, rice, coffee, and tea. The Law exemplifies the expansion of anti-Chinese sentiments beyond mining, as the California economy becomes less focused on mining, and Chinese competition in other industries is resented.<ref name=harpweek-california-anti/><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.cetel.org/1862_tax.html|title = Chinese Police Tax Law|date = April 26, 1862|accessdate = June 24, 2017|publisher = Ancestors in the Americas}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=3&psid=18|title = California Imposes a Tax on Chinese Laborers|last = Greene|first = Ellen|date = April 26, 1862|accessdate = June 24, 2017}}</ref>
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