Chinese immigrants began to arrive in California just before this 1849 "rush"
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The History of Chinese Immigration to the U.S.  Chinese immigration can be divided into three periods: 1849-1882, ... The first period began shortly after the California Gold Rush and ended abruptly with the ... First of all, they arrived in America looking to strike it rich with hopes of being to...
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The Chinese Experience in 19th Century America  Chinese immigrants had come to San Francisco as early as 1838, but large numbers of Chinese only began to come in 1850 for the same reason many Americans were flocking to California - the 1849 Gold Rush. The Chinese immigrants...
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Gold Rush and Anti-Chinese Race Hatred - 1849  At the beginning of the year 1849 there were in the state only fifty-four Chinamen. At the news of the gold discovery a steady immigration commenced which ... The Alta California, a San Francisco newspaper, went so far as to say, The China .... the whole Chinese question was up again in more violent form than ever before.
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History of Chinese Americans - Wikipedia  The history of Chinese Americans or the history of ethnic Chinese in the United States relates to the three major waves of Chinese immigration to the United States with the first beginning in the 19th century. Chinese immigrants in the 19th century worked as laborers, particularly on .... The Chinese did not, however, only come for the gold rush in California, but...
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Chinese immigrants  Immigration to the United States  Chinese immigrants, the primary targets of the California law, were ... of a 1790 federal law that reserved naturalized citizenship to "white persons only. ... to be effective and reliable workers, and the company began to hire more Chinese. ... a distant third occupation for Chinese immigrants before the 1940's, although it was...
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History of Chinese Americans - Wikipedia  The last major immigration wave started around the 1850s. The West Coast of North America was being rapidly colonized during the California Gold Rush, while...
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Chinatown | The Story of Chinatown - PBS  In the mid-1840's, following defeat by Britain in the first Opium War, a series of natural ... In 1850, San Francisco Mayor John W. Geary invited the "China Boys" to a ceremony to ... This act suspended the immigration of Chinese laborers for ten years. ... The small frontier town rapidly grew into a city after the discovery of gold.
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The Gold Rush of 1849 - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  Find out more about the history of The Gold Rush of 1849, including videos, ... The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush, ... As news spread of the discovery, thousands of prospective gold miners ... Throughout 1849, people around the United States (mostly men) borrowed...
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IMMIGRANTS IN 1900's NEW YORK CITY - Jobs  Fresh from the end of the Industrial Revolution, the new formed United States was in need of laborers. ... 12 million immigrants had passed through the gates at Ellis Island nestled in the New York Harbor between 1842 and 1954. ... Old immigrants who had entered the country prior to the late 1800s often stereotyped the...
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Chinese immigrants  Immigration to the United States  By the early twenty-first century, they constituted the largest Asian immigrant ... However, the discovery of gold in California in 1848 brought a large wave of Chinese. ... they proved to be effective and reliable workers, and the company began to .... the total U.S. population during the 1960's) of Asian Americans in the country.
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Chinese in San Francisco during the 1800s from The Maritime ...  Sea Captains sailing into San Francisco during the 1800s. ... The first Chinese emigrants to California arrived in the brig Eagle, from Hongkong, in the month of...
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British Columbia - The Canadian Encyclopedia  Feb 10, 2016 ... The west-facing mountains of Vancouver Island receive more than 2,500 mm of .... In the mid-19th century Chinese people began working in the mines of the Cariboo, and in the early 1880s many more Chinese were brought to BC as .... was proclaimed capital of the new colony in 1859 and controlled river...
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The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 - Collection Connections ...  "Sing Fat Co., Inc.": From San Francisco Chinatown (post ... Included within this presentation are stories of immigrants arriving in the United States, ... of the discovery of gold in California across the Pacific in the spring and summer of 1848. ... American brig 'Eagle' was the first vessel to bring Chinese settlers to California.
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After the Gold Rush - National Geographic Society  Jan 21, 2011 ... Short article on the aftermath of the California Gold Rush. ... Migration of gold-seekers helped shape California's future ... When California became a state in 1850, the capital was moved to Sacramentowhere gold had been discovered just ... The Gold Rush put San Francisco on the map, Rohrbough says.
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California becomes a State of the Union | History Today  At that time California had a white population of under 7000. ... Enter your keywords ... became the thirty-first state of the United States on September 9th, 1850. ... in numbers which exceeded the figure of 60,000 required to become a state.
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The Gold Rush of 1849 - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  Find out more about the history of The Gold Rush of 1849, including videos, interesting articles, ... Discover how the Gold Rush led to the creation of California.
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Chinese Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Acts - Milestones in ...  Most Chinese laborers who came to the United States did so in order to send money ... from East Asia, and expressed concern about the integrity of American racial ... In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which, per the terms of ... The Act also required every Chinese person traveling in or out of the country...
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Virginia City and Early Nevada Mining | ONE  When prospectors passed through the region in 1849 heading for ... The 1859 discovery of the Comstock Lode and the subsequent rush justified splitting Utah in half. ... Comstock gold and silver attracted a global spectrum of fortune seekers, giving ... Largely because of the Comstock, mining was the backbone of the state...
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California - Wikipedia  California is the most populous state in the United States. It is also the third most extensive by ... Admission to Union, September 9, 1850 (31st). Governor ... Earthquakes are common because of the state's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire. ..... Sacramento became California's first incorporated city on February 27, 1850.
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California Gold Rush - Wikipedia  The California Gold Rush (18481855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by .... The Gold Rush town of Weaverville on the Trinity River today retains the oldest continuously used Taoist temple in California, a legacy of Chinese...
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California Gold Rush - Wikipedia  The California Gold Rush (18481855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by .... Mexican miners from Sonora worked the placer deposits until 1846, when the Californios ... Some enterprising families set up boarding houses to accommodate the influx of men; in such cases, the women often brought in steady...