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    Chinese American History

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    1849 California Gold Rush[12] which drew the first significant number of laborers from China who mined for gold and performed menial labor.[13][14][15] There were 25‚000 immigrants by 1852‚ and 105‚465 by 1880‚ most of whom lived on the West Coast. They formed over a tenth of California’s population. Nearly all the early immigrants were young males with low educational levels from six districts in the Guangdong province.[16] The Chinese came to California in large numbers during the California Gold

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    America with the California Gold Rush. They continued to immigrate with the large labor projects‚ such as the First Transcontinental Railroad. At that time‚ a lot of Chinese immigrated to America. During the early stages of the gold rush‚ surface gold was abundant‚ and Americans tolerated the Chinese took the gold. But later‚ the gold was less and less‚ the white men began to hate Chinese labors. They said the gold was belonged to Americans. So many Chinese people began to give up mining gold‚ and they

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    that’s so cool. Second one:Dining Experiences‚Ghiradellhi’s chocolate factory. The Bay Area’s history with chocolate dates back to the California Gold Rush‚ when Domingo Ghirardelli opened the city’s first chocolate factory in 1852. Ghirardelli (whose father was a chocolatier in Italy) had come to the Bay Area (by way of Uruguay and Peru) to try his hand at gold mining upon a

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    Forty-Niners By 1849‚ the gold rush was on. Strangers from all parts of the earth – East‚ Europe‚ Latin America‚ and Asia – were thrown together with only one common of interest‚ GOLD. These early gold-seekers‚ called "forty-niners‚" traveled to California by sailing ship and in covered wagons across the continent‚ often facing substantial hardships on the trip. People caught "Gold Fever" in the hope of striking it rich. Many gold seekers arrived expecting to find rivers overflowing with gold. Unfortunately

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    The biggest immigration of all time happened in the period of 1850’s where gold was found by James Marshall; also known as the Western Movement. The Native American population went from 150‚000 to 30‚000. While the immigration grew‚ somebody had to pay for it and they were the chosen ones. Speak of a devil‚ the Native Americans were there first who arrived with 100 tribes spread out in California. They have lived there for many years‚ and have not seen any other people than the new settlers. Essentially

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    how to write a thesis statement‚ I learned how to properly write a business letter‚ I also learned that everything you write you must supporting detail. 5. If I had the choice to research any topic and write on it I would research about the california gold rush and how it changed america. I would choose to research this because of how revolutionary that event was‚ that event created the pants I wear today‚ it changed american economy for years to come. nnjkjj kkj j mnj j j klj ljj jjjdfknlkfnbvlkxnlj

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    family farms. Stanford began law school around the year 1848. Stanford got married in 1850 and had one son. Stanford moved to California during the Gold Rush after loosing the law library his father got for him. He helped in organizing the Sacramento Library Association‚ which later became the Sacramento Public Library. Stanford was one of the four Sacramento‚ California businessmen known as “The Big Four”. They were all the investors of the Central Pacific Railroad that was incorporated on June

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    that were boiling in this so called “melting pot” of diversity. Many racial tensions began as Americans saw these Chinese as a threat to their jobs and the economy. During this time the Gold rush was happening in California‚ which China was in a period of poverty‚ which lead many Chinese to immigrate to California (Seattle.) Before the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882‚ there was the Page Act of 1875‚ which denied and restricted many forced laborers coming from Asia. Then‚ there comes the Immigration

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    offered natural resources such as gold‚ oil‚ and lumber‚ also it gave hope to freedom and landownership all the while guarding it with dangerous obstacle such as natives‚ disease‚ and drought. The forge west brought on all sorts of big European business men preying on ignorant and uneducated people. We see fishermen being conned to buy lands that they would turn over to corporate hands and natives letting go of their titles to white men whom had made them bad deals. The rush west brought in rail roads

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    in the west coast of the United States. The gold rush became the most important event of the era. Thousands of people fled to the west coast in search of instant wealth. With this increase of people migrating to the west‚ towns began to pop up in the vicinity of mines to facilitate the influx of people. These towns were known as boomtowns and usually became a bust as quick as they were started. The majority of these towns fell right after all the gold was mined out of that area. While the majority

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