who were the first asian immigrants arriving in california during the 1800's?
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The first Asian immigrants in California are Chinese.\nThese people were actually brought by the Americans to engage in cheap labor.
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Many Chinese fled their country as a result of the two "opium wars" and the Taiping Rebellion.  There was also political upheaval as the West (Britain and France) expanded into Asia.\n\nWhy CA?  partly due to the 1849 gold rush - everyone was moving to Sacramento area.\nThey also found work with the railroad as it tunneled eastward toward Utah.
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Americans came from 2 origins: the Native Americans or Indians, and the English settlers or immigrants that came to America to explore.\n\nNowadays, legal American citizens come from all over the world may it be Asian, Caucasian, Hispanic, European or even Black origin.
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California entered as a free state in 1850. \n\nA.H.
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Asian peoples who later formed the native american tribes were the first.  hundreds of years later the vikings (anglo saxons) also arrived to explore the Americas.  Hundreds of years after that in 1492, A spanish Explorer Christopher Columbus, was paid by the Queen of Portugal to find a new route to India.  He choose to sail west rather than east and landed in what is now South America.  He then went on to India.  After Columbus returned to Portugal, he reported what he found to the Queen.  After the news of his adventures spread Spain and Portugal both began sending expiditions to the Americas and formed a few colonies in South and Central America.  \n\nIn the late 16th Century, France and Britain were exploring North America and Britain formed the James town settlement.  The first British Colony in the Americas.  France was also sending convicts to work the land in eastern Canada.  \n\nDuring the 17th century, many British and a few Dutch groups came to the New World for religious freedom.  By the early 18th century young British men were braving the new world in hopes of making their fortunes and some adventurous intellectuals also made the journey.  \n\nIt was not until the 19th century that significant numbers of non-Brits (Eastern Europeans, Italians, Germans, etc.) came to the United States.
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It was not considered illegal when the European and Asian Americans came here, more like they thought they discovered this land.  It is shameless what they did to the Native Americans still.
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The Gold in California, and hte expansion of the US
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East Indians are the people that originate from Asia and American Indians are the people that the Europeans found in America when they settled here.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_immigration_to_the_United_States
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Both were the same. Both places had the same routine on letting immigrants in.The only difference was the asian immigrants went to angel island were as european imgrants went to ellis island.
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the first immigrants were the "Native American Indians". They emmigrate from Asia walking throught Northern Asia, through Alaska & settle through out the Americas.
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Americans lie,cheat,steal anything goes, They don't trust asians in general as they don,t trust others races such as the indiguos "American Indian" they were treated by European decendant americans worse than black slaves! Yeah I know about cooly labor and slaving out the irish in the mid 1800s! Do you think you can find any other race then asian working for Asian employer say in Chinatown in San Francisco? Yet there are state and federal laws against discrimination, and yes it works against them cause americans won,t hire them! What about the one where China discovered America first, i have known one american indian family that had slanted eye features! The truth!A family that went by the last name of Blazedel spelling could be wrong!
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If you believe the landbridge story connecting Asia to America, then Asian nomads first approached onto America and became the Native Americans after settling down.\n\nIf not, then the vikings were the first people to come to America with evidence. There are remains of a settlement up on Newfoundland which ceased to survive. Christopher Columbus (who was looking for the India in Asia), winded up landing in one of the Carribean islands and made that contineant famous in Europe.
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Paleo-Indians, and it is thought that people from China and surrounding Asian areas also migrated to the West Coast before Native Americans...
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The first Filipino are those living in the Philippines by the time it become Philippines.. it was around 1521,, the question was: what will you call the people of the Philippines before it was discovered by magellan...
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There's a samuel titus born in 1834 in NY, but recorded in the census in CA.  Dunno if it's him. I put first last name, U.S. and California.
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The very first immigrant to come to the USA was Bob.