Photographs of loved ones taken after they died may seem strange to modern sensibilities. But in Victorian England, they became a way of remembering the dead.
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President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese exclusion act in 1882 which banned Chinese immigration to the United States for a total of 40 years.
Nativism contributed to the Act as the Chinese were considered a threat to the economic well-being of the natives. The Chinese were stereotyped as degraded, dangerous, and competitors for jobs and wages. The passage of the act characterized the outcome of years of racial hostility
Supreme Court allowed legal segregation - invalidated Civil Rights Act, Plessy vs. Ferguson and separate but equal doctrine
Don't worry chapter 18 is gonna be easier
