Chinese Immigrants were officially seized and cross-questioned at Angel Island immigration station in San Francisco Bay. U.S. officers expected to banish as several as doable by asking vague questions about Chinese villages and family histories that immigrants would have bother respondent properly. Men and girls were housed one by one. People held in custody spent abundant of their time within the barracks, <u><em>suffering between interrogations.</em></u>
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Commodore Perry and Japan (1853-1854) Asia for Educators. Columbia University. On July 8, 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry of the United States Navy, commanding a squadron of two steamers and two sailing vessels, sailed into Tôkyô harbor aboard the frigate Susquehanna.
To defend its nation against threats from an aggressor nation
