Around this time they began to monitor and cease the flow of immigration as a whole but majorly against the Chinese with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. People also began to push west and remove Native people from their lands either by force or by more violent means. This really connects with this piece because it really shows a first hand account of the prejudice and the measures that were taken to move the Native Americans out of their lands. This work really exemplifies the lengths to which Americans would go to get what they wanted, no matter what the cost was to other people. In this unit we really focused on the normal farmer and the movement and expansion towards the west and the effect it had on the Native people of this land. This work shows the little sympathy that Americans had for Native Americans and immigrants during this time. They tie very well into each other because it shows and provides evidence for many horrible