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Foreign Affairs
Burlingame Treaty of 1868

Anson Burlingame was the U.S. minister to China in the Lincoln and Johnson administrations. His fairness was respected by the Chinese, who selected him to represent their interests in improving relations with Britain and the United States.

In a treaty concluded in Washington, the U.S. and China agreed on the following:

  • That either nation would be open to unlimited immigration from the other
  • That citizens of one nation would be able to travel, study and reside freely in the other nation
  • That the United States would not interfere with internal Chinese affairs.

The United States was actively encouraging the influx of Chinese workers as a source of inexpensive labor. This effort would later be reversed in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, setting a pattern of discrimination for the next 60 years.

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  Angell Treaty - 1880 Revision to the Burlingame Treaty limiting but not absolutely prohibiting the immigration of Chinese.   Chinese Exclusion Act - 1882                                       Created by Jaime Boyle Graduate Student at American ...
http://www.american.edu/bgriff/dighistprojects/boyle/documents.htm

Governors Of Oregon - Photographs
... senator, Grover worked to exclude Chinese workers from Oregon and to modify the Burlingame Treaty of 1868, which encouraged Chinese immigration to the United States. He supported the construction of locks at Willamette Falls in Oregon City ...
http://www.osl.state.or.us/home/lib/governors/lfg.htm

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... supporters for Asian immigration to the United States.  Alteration of the Burlingame Treaty limiting Chinese immigration to the United States greatly angered Twain.  He believed the Chinese were as able bodied as any American and respected ...
http://www.american.edu/bgriff/dighistprojects/boyle/biographies.htm

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