Life on the Mainland The Chinese Experience. Gold Rush.

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Life on the Mainland The Chinese Experience

Gold Rush

1850s Governor John Bigler

Gold Rush May 1852: Foreign Miners’ License Tax

Gold Rush 1855 Chinese Immigration Act 1862 An Act to Protect Free White Labor Against Competition with Chinese Coolie Labor, and to Discourage the Immigration of the Chinese into the State of California

Central Pacific Railroad

Leland Stanford

Central Pacific Railroad Winter 1866

Central Pacific Railroad 1890 at Promontory Point, Utah

Agriculture Ah Bing Lue Gim Gon

Post Civil War Chinese Tenant farmers

Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association

Legal Actions leading to Exclusion 1855 Chan Yong 1862 Ling Sing V. Washburn

Legal Actions leading to Exclusion 1868 Burlingame Treaty

Legal Actions leading to Exclusion 1870 Civil Rights Act

Chinese Women

1875 Page Law 1.) Decreased population 2.) Miscegenation 3.) Gambling 4.) Brothels 5.) Opium Dens 6.) Chinese Stores

Railroad to the East Brought in as strike workers against unions

1880 California Definitions Whites could not marry Negros, Mulattos, or Mongolians

1882 Chinese Exclusion Act

Entrepreneurship & Chinatowns

Joe Shoong- First National Dollar Store

Entrepreneurship & Chinatowns Bachelor Quarters Unsanitary Conditions

Pre- Earthquake San Francisco Chinatown

Entrepreneurship & Chinatowns: The Great San Francisco Earthquake April 18, 1906

Entrepreneurship & Chinatowns

Tongs Top: On Leong and Hip Sing Tongs Bottom: Pui Tak Center/ On Leong Tong Building here in Chcago Huiguans

Traditions from Home Chinese New Year, Qing Ming, Moon Festival Brought their gods

Another Wave of Immigration 1924 National Origins Act Paper Sons Angel Island

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