TOPIC #1: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
1)Background:
During the history time, we knew since the Gold Rush in New Mexico and California, many chinese people have immigrated to the United States expecially California.
2)Sources/Informations:
According to the textbook and Internet, many chinese because of Taiping Rebellion, they immigrataned to U.S, when U.S had the Gold Rush. But during the time, many U.S people realized that chinese people will get more gold, that's bad for U.S people, so they began dislike chinese people. Then, chinese people always hard work and companies can just pay low wages for chinese labor, thus many americans lost jobs, also, because of that and centered on race and ethnicity. According to Burlingame Treaty, anti-Chinese sentiment among American workers saored, and made/enated law called " Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882", this law is to bar Chinese immigrantion to the U.S.
3)Why i choose this Topic?
First, as a chinese, I really interested in how's chinese's lives in U.S and want to know what happended in history about chinese and americans. However, Chinese people come to U.S, not only brought the bad things but also they brought the good things for U.S like improving U.S economy.
TOPIC #2: The history of American art in general
1)Source/Information:
In U.S, American art enompassess the history of painting and visual art. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centries, many artists painted land scapes and portranits in realistic style. Also, many history nformation from pictures, thus many artists painted many war pictures to shouw the war or people during the war. Thus, histrorians can get more informations about history or war now. In U.S, painting is the main art.
2)Why I choose this Topic?
My art major is painting and drawing, so now I'm studying in U.S, I should know something about U.S art. In the history, we knew, after Declaration fo Independence in 1776, the nation need a history, so many artists began to paint history painting and portraitis such as Gilbert Stuart. And some times, pictures can show us about history, and we can easy to understand.
