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Chinese Head Tax and Immigration Act of 1885 [Grade 5-8] Activity Fields, Erin

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This activity will involve analyzing textual primary sources about Chinese immigration during the mid to late 1800s in Canada. The purpose of this activity is to give students practice in analyzing digital primary sources, to understand the context in which the sources were made, and to investigate the causes and consequences of opinions and actions on economic, political, social, and cultural historical practices. Incorporating sources from UBC Library’s Open Collections into your classroom can help students build their historical thinking through analyzing, contextualizing, and inferring using historical texts.

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Title
Chinese Head Tax and Immigration Act of 1885 [Grade 5-8] Activity
Creator
Fields, Erin
Date Issued
2017-09
Description
This activity will involve analyzing textual primary sources about Chinese immigration during the mid to late 1800s in Canada. The purpose of this activity is to give students practice in analyzing digital primary sources, to understand the context in which the sources were made, and to investigate the causes and consequences of opinions and actions on economic, political, social, and cultural historical practices. Incorporating sources from UBC Library’s Open Collections into your classroom can help students build their historical thinking through analyzing, contextualizing, and inferring using historical texts.
Subject
Chinese Immigration; Chinese Head Tax; Immigration Act of 1885
Genre
Other
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2018-01-19
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0363099
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/64426
Affiliation
Library, UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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