The Chinese Exclusion Act
by National Archives and Records Administration
This course material is only available in the iTunes U app on iPhone or iPad.
Course Description
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and subsequent expansions on and revisions of the intent of that law lasted until 1943. These laws severely curtailed immigration from China to the United States and affected the democratic rights of Americans of Chinese decent. Documents and records of individual case files, and Certificates of Residence housed in the National Archives and Records Administration detail the individual stories resulting from these laws. This course and companion Multi-Touch book explores those stories through primary source document analysis. Explore, discover and learn to research in the digital files of the National Archives to further understand the impact of these laws.
Primary source documents are the building blocks of history and learning to research and analyze the stories that emerge from our documents and records helps give us perspective on our immigration history.
This project was made possible through a collaboration of the National Archives and Records Administration and Cheryl Davis and Mia Morrison, Apple Distinguished Educators. Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) are part of a global community of education leaders recognized for doing amazing things with Apple technology in and out of the classroom. The collaboration was supported through the ADEs in Residence Program, which places selected ADEs in some of the world’s leading museums, archives, science centers, and cultural organizations to develop innovative teaching and learning resources.
Materials created by the National Archives and Records Administration are in the public domain.
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| 1 | The Chinese Exclusion Act | The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. This book is a learning tool that explores stories about Chinese immigrants through primary source document analysis. It weaves together documents from the Immigration Service, custom houses, ports of entry, and Angel Island Immigration Station. The stories also reveal how Chinese Exclusion laws affected the democratic rights of American-born children of Chinese immigrants. This book includes interactive features, questions for topic exploration and reflection, transcriptions for highlighting, and review activities.  Analyzing the stories that emerge from primary sources provides perspective on U.S. immigration history. This project was made possible through a collaboration of the National Archives and Apple Distinguished Educators Cheryl Davis and Mia Morrison. Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) are part of a global community of education leaders recognized for doing amazing things with Apple technology in and out of the classroom. The collaboration was supported through the ADEs in Residence Program, which places selected ADEs in some of the world’s leading museums, archives, science centers, and cultural organizations to develop innovative teaching and learning resources. Materials created by the National Archives and Records Administration are in the public domain. | -- | Free | View in iTunes |
| 2 | National Archives DocsTeach | DocsTeach is the app for learning with documents, from the U.S. National Archives. Students can enter a classroom code to access and complete activities assigned to them, or choose from a selection of learning activities by historical era. The app works alongside the DocsTeach.org website, where educators can find or create primary source-based activities to share with students either on the website or on their iPads. For Students: • Complete activities assigned by your teacher using the classroom code provided. • Or choose an era and challenge yourself with an activity. • Inspect and analyze digitized primary sources in high resolution. • Engage in activities that help you make sense of stories, events, and ideas of the past using historical documents from the holdings of the U.S. National Archives. For Educators: • Create a classroom of engaging activities in your free account on the DocsTeach.org website, then share the classroom’s auto-generated code with your students to access on their iPads. • Include your favorite activities created by the National Archives or other educators. • Design your own activities to share using the custom activity-creation tools: Discussion Topic, Spotlight, Zoom/Crop, Compare and Contrast, White Out/Black Out, Finding a Sequence, Making Connections, Mapping History, Seeing the Big Picture, Weighing the Evidence, and Interpreting Data. • Learn more at DocsTeach.org/resources/app • Register for a free account at DocsTeach.org DocsTeach is the online tool for teaching with documents from the U.S. National Archives. It is a product of the National Archives education division and made possible in part by the National Archives Foundation through the support of Texas Instruments, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, and Capital One. | -- | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | ThingLink | Immersive storytelling for everyone: Easily augment photos with text, audio, closeup photos, links, and video. Create images with sound, explain what’s in the picture with notes and narration, document nature around you, send instructions for how things work, or tell an engaging story of what you’ve just learned. Trusted by over 5 million online content creators, teachers, and students around the world, ThingLink is a must have tool for digital storytelling. It is suitable (and fun) for learners and storytellers of all ages! What educators say about ThingLink: ◆◆◆◆◆ “ThingLink has allowed my students to become the experts by sharing their knowledge with their peers and other classrooms around the world” ◆◆◆◆◆ “Thinglink is not just a tool. It is a supportive community designed to provide teachers with rich, interactive experiences that engage learners and immerses them into worlds they may not possibly be able to experience otherwise.” ◆◆◆◆◆ “ThingLink has provided us with a tool for our students to be creators of authentic and interactive VR content!” ◆◆◆◆◆ ”Thinglink has dramatically changed and challenged my instructional practices in both delivery of projects and student engagement.” Value for users: EDUCATOR: Easily create engaging learning materials STUDENT: Document learning and practice digital literacy JOURNALIST: Increase engagement by adding notes and narration to photos ANYBODY: Tell deeper stories about how you see the world NOTE: This ThingLink app is free, and it supports annotation of 2D images. ThingLink Premium account holders have access to 360 photo editing on iPads and on Thinglink.com. Underaged students need an invitation code from their teacher to use the app. ThingLink interactive images can be shared and embedded across the web. Users can access and edit their images on this app or ThinkLink’s web service. Download the app now and create your first interactive image story! = FEATURES = √ FREE TO USE √ Choose a photo from the gallery or take a new picture with your phone’s camera √ Add interactive tags to your image - Text - Photos - Audio recording - Video recording √ Share via SMS, Email, or Twitter √ Access your own interactive image gallery on ThingLink √ Create and organize your image channels Note: a mobile network or wifi connection is required to use this application. If you like ThingLink, we would appreciate if you take the time to rate our app! | -- | Free | View in iTunes |
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| 5 | The Art of Storytelling | -- | -- | Free | View in iTunes |
| 6 | Explain Everything Tutorial | -- | 2:55 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | The San Francisco Call Newspaper Articles | -- | -- | Free | View in iTunes |
| 8 | Wordsalad - Smart Word Clouds | Make great word clouds out of documents or sentences that matter to you! With Wordsalad, you can make beautiful word clouds, super customized with different fonts, colors and words layouts. Wordsalad is the number one word cloud generator used in education, many schools love this app! If you are a teacher you should definitely give it a try: "Very useful app for teachers - I found this version better than the Wordle program you find online. I like the facility to print in A3 and the email in PDF format. Lots of different styles and colors to suit everyone. Many thanks for this useful app, it was money well spent." CORE FEATURES: -Import or write any text from files or Wikipedia articles with a single tap -Customize your salads with great fonts -Color your salads with fancy palettes -Feeling creative? Wordsalad gives different layouts to position your words -Share your salads on all your iOS devices -Export your salads to camera roll for later reuse and export them to PDF (with vector graphics!) and Photoshop PLUS: -Thanks to state of the art Natural Language Processing technologies, Wordsalad is able to detect the language your text is in to filter out the most “boring” and “insignificant” words. This is just to give you the content you really care about! If you need every word to show up, there’s an option for that too Still in doubts? Here some real USE CASES: -Need to brainstorm on a document and need a quick way to highlight the words that matter most? Try a wordsalad! -Need to express your ideas in a different way? Tired of the old PowerPoint thing? Try a wordsalad! -Need to market a message? Make a poster out of the text of your favourite song? Send a funky love letter? Again Wordsalad is a great fit! | -- | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | Conducting Online Research Tutorial | -- | -- | Free | View in iTunes |
| 10 | Creately Tutorial | -- | 2:21 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | Attachments Exhibit at the National Archives | -- | 3:27 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 12 | National Archives Attachments Exhibit Press Preview -- 6-14-12 | -- | 2:38 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | Research at the National Archives | -- | 2:12 | Free | View in iTunes |
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| 15 | Senate Resolution 201 | -- | -- | Free | View in iTunes |
| 16 | Video Tour of the Records of Rights | -- | 10:22 | Free | View in iTunes |
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