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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
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| (1848)lead to annexation of CA, GOLD was discovered! Opened up the gold mines. |
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| Nation Building and Industrialization, Spread to the West! INDUSTRIALIZE! |
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| (1850 - 1864)Civil war in Southern China against Manchurians in which 20-30 million died. |
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| (1839-1842)Treaty of Nanjing 1842, open up ports in China, Canton loses monopoly on commerce which leads to many local jobs lost. |
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| (1856-1860) Treaty of Tianjing 1860, indemnity paid to Brits, open up more ports (trade), Allow missionaries |
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| Opium war effects + Constant floods |
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| people leave, push factor |
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| (1852) monthly payment of $3 for anyone who didn’t want to become a US citizen, however Chinese couldn’t become citizens anyways because of the 1790 law that only white people can become citizens. |
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| An act to discourage the immigration to this state of persons who cannot become citizens thereof |
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| (1855) master of ship landing tax $50 for each person ineligible to become US citizen. 7 years later another law for 2.50$ per month on all chinese residing in the state except mine workers, sugar, rice, coffee, tea |
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| Chinese leave gold fields |
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| 1860's, profits decreased -> turned to manufacturing and Quartz mining. |
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| construction of Central Pacific Railroad began. |
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| 1865, Hired Chinese. Important because connected CA with rest of nation. Helped created an interconnected economy. |
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| 1869, Railroad Finito, Chinese were displaced all over the place. |
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| California Agriculture Development |
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| Bing Cherry in Oregon, Gong developed frost resistant oranges |
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| 1840-1870, Turned from Shitty Massachusettes town into industrial place, Sampson and his fucking shoes. Some bullshit like that. |
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| (1877) Bunch of Chinese Died, but the whites were acquitted because Chinese could not testify in court. |
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| See Yup ($500 Wells fargo, mines, forced to sell for $20,000, disappeared!) |
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| 1854 Court case says that Chinese cannot testify against whites |
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| segregated schools in California |
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| 1859 Superintendent wants to separate White and Nonwhites from the same school saying that nonwhites are a bad influence. |
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| 1870 1 horse 2 dolla, 2 horse 4 dolla no horse 15 dolla |
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| 1882 Chinese no allowed enter US QQ |
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| 1883, chinese who left the US cannot come back!~ |
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| 1923 - American indians // that although Indians were “Caucasion” based on anthropological analysis, they were not “white”. 65 American Indians lost citizenship, one guy committed suicide. |
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| 1877, Arsonist tried to burn Chiantown, 4 murdered, organized b a Caucasian labor union |
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| 1877, Agitators raised a crowd of people in anti chinese sentiment, they then proceeded to storm the Chiantown, assaulted many people |
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| 1871 2 feuding Chinamen over a girl, police came over, one of the chinese got nervous and picked up a rock, the police attacked and killed one of the chinaman, later that night a crowed formed and hung chinese, many chinese were shot, and many more were wounded. |
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| Progress and poverty, context for exclusion 1879, Chinese exclusion 1882, Because of him gov't realized national crisis. |
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| Humbolt County California |
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| TOLD ALL FKIN CHINESE TO LEAVE, ROUNDED THEM OUT, DROVE THEM OUT INTO THE HILL BITCHES. 1885 |
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| DROVE chinese to warf, dumped them on the port but couldn't bring em back to china, BRought to SF instead. Tacoma Chinatown burned 1885. |
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| 1893, Midway, White City, Women's building, women between white city and midway <3 |
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| 1849, Did an experiment measuring brain capacity and reflex times saying that Blacks and Native Americans had quicker reflex times than Whites. Meaning... Whites were steadfast and thus, superior. |
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| Chinese + other immigrants had germs weird microbes and diseases, ex outbreak of plague in 1900s. |
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| 1852 No basket carrying over shoulder |
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| Portland Oregon, Opium ban |
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| 1877 No smoking opium or other narcotics. |
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| Why were a ton of Chinese arrested? |
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| All the laws worked against them |
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| "white" is a pure racial category (1980s) This chick was like 1/12421476129761469124 or something black. Very, very distantly black, 1/32 or more makes you blk. |
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| The whites (welsh) drove out most of the chinese from that though. |
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Strike by railway workers that faced 30-40% decrease in wages --> 50-100 million dollars in damages
--Reflected that conflicts like these were threatening to destroy the nation. |
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| 7 categories prejudice (Sucheng) |
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| Economical discrimination, political disenfranchisement, physical violence, immigration exclusion, social segregation, and incarceration |
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| Economical Discrimination |
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-Laundry Tax (1870)
-Split Wages
-Foreign Miner's Tax |
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| Political Disenfranchisement |
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-People vs Hall - 1854
-Naturalization Act 1970 |
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Tacoma Washington (export) - 1877
-LA Riot - 1871
-Snake River 1877 (killed Chinese, couldn't testify against whites, murderes acquitted.)
-Humbolt County - 1877 (drove chinese out to the hills, burned china town) |
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-Chinese Exclusion Act - 1882
-Scott Act - 1883
-Paige law - 1875 |
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-California School Segregation - 1859
-ChinaTowns Seperate from other towns
-Germ Theory - Chinese brought weird germs -> 1900s Bubonic Plague outbreak in SF. |
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Basket Ordinance - 1852 no carrying basket over shoulder
Narcotics/Opium Act Oregon - 1877 |
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