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Gold discovered in California. Chinese begin to arrive.
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Gold Rush
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California imposes Foreign Miner's Tax and enforces it mainly against Chinese miners, who often had to pay more than once.
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Economical Development
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First group of 195 Chinese contract laborers land in Hawaii. Over 20,000 Chinese enter California. Chinese first appear in court in California. Missionary Willian Speer opens Presbyterian mission for Chinese in San Francisco.
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San Francisco opens a school for Chinese children (changed to an evening school two years later). Missionary Augustus Loomis arrives to serve the Chinese in San Francisco.
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They worked as labors on the transcontinental railroads
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Anti-Chinese violence in Chico, California. Japanese Christians set up the Gospel Soceity in San Francisco, the first immigrant association formed by the Japanese.
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The "yellow peril"
Color metaphore for races : The asian were a mortal danger -
The chinese exclusion act passed by the U.S Congress
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Chinese people wanted to strick rich
They took any kind of jobs and sent money to their families -
Chinese in the U.S. and Hawaii support boycott of American products in China.
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Angel Island
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Asians were allowed to bring their families to the U.S
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Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, out- lawing racial discrimination.
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President George Bush signs into law an entitlement program to pay each surviving Japanese American internee $20,000. U.S. reaches agreement with Vietnam to allow political prisoners to emigrate to the U.S.
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Piyush “Bobby” Jindal elected to Congress representing Louisiana. Bobby is the first Indian American to win a congressional seat in 46 years.
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Judy Chu is elected as the United States Rep- resentative for California’s 32nd congressional district. She is the first Chinese American wom- an ever elected to the U.S. Congress.
