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Humans Across Borders: U.S. Exclusion Policy Leads to Smuggling of Chinese Immigrants

Document 2

Vocabulary

Testified: Has given their version of an incident or belief.
Acquainted: Has personal knowledge.

Image. Sworn Statement of Ong Mon, 1903.
Document 2: Sworn Statement of Ong Mon. National Archives and Records Administration Northeast Region. (NRAN-85-CHINEXCL-19(1490)-6). Available online through NAIL Database, www.archives.gov.

Document 2 Short-Answer Questions

  1. What year was this document created?
  2. Who was questioning Ong Mon, and what was his title?
  3. What did Inspector Sisson ask Ong Mon about his activities on Tuesday night?
  4. When this document was created, what did a Chinese person have to have inorder to prove they had the right to be in the U.S.?

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