Jug

This porcelain jug represents Uncle Sam evicting the Chinese. The handle represents the California bear pursuing the Oriental dragon, (represented by the spout of the jug). Made in recognition of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

The Wasp newspaper was one of the champions of the Anti-Chinese movement. The movement had many aspects, but the main one was the ending of all Chinese immigration to the United States, which, the movement argued, argued, not only threatened jobs for whites but also the purity of White Anglo Saxon Protestant (WASP) California and America. In the end, the movement was successful with the passing of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which effectively ended most Chinese immigration to the United States.