The Chinese came and they fought!

The Chinese came in search for gold. They came when they heard that James Marshall found gold in California in 1848 in the caves, they all wanted to come and get rich because they thought that they would just get gold and leave. They thought that it was going to be easy but the were wrong. It was even hard to get in. The Chinese wanted to get rich and go back to China as a rich man. But when they came, they didn't find what they expected.

They had to take lots of test to get in, and some where put in to Angel Island. Their lives changed once they decided to come to America. The gold rush was something that was remembered. If they wanted to come, they came on their own, to find gold. In 1848 many of the Chinese from Canton came, thousands of young Chinese mortgaged their futures and boarded boats to 'Gum Shan,' 'Or Gold Mountain.'  It was a dangerous gamble, but they had nothing to lose. There were many accidents, disease, malnutrition and violent habits. Many people died on their way to find gold. It was dangerous because so many immigrants fought to come in and get rich. It wasn't easy to find gold even if they get in. They had to pan for the gold, which took a lot of time and effort. The Chinese transformed Gold Mountain. They came and found work because they get lower pay, which quickley earned the resentment of their white competitors. In 1849, white minors drove off 60 of the Chinese minors working for a British Company.

James Marshall discovered gold in California and started the California gold rush in 1848, which made most of the immigrants go to California to pan for gold.

The Chinese were neglected when they were in Arizona Territory. They had reached a land of their frontier opportunities and values, where the cultures were ethnically diverse. The Chinese came and build the railroads, and in return the railroads helped them escape persecution in northern California and brought them to less developed and populated territories. The prevailing prejudice against Orientals began to reflect in legislation by 1880. It started and provided rejection of laborers. It started the making of laws passed only towards the Chinese, such as the Exclusion Law of 1882, and the Geary Act of 1892. Which prohibited the coming of the Chinese and which stopped the immigration of the Chinese to California.

The anti-Chinese sentiment along the Pacific Coast was the most potent factor that sparred the Chinese immigrants eastward. There were a lot of prejudices against the Chinese, when the economic conditions in America took a turn for the worse. The depression forced many laborers out of work, and because the Chinese were a small, but visible minority, they became easy targets for persecution and humiliation. A law passed in 1863 inadvertently encouraged acts of violence against the Chinese by forbidding them to testify against white men in court.

The Chinese went throught alot of hardships to get what they wanted. Many people fought each other because they want to find gold. This is very dangerous because many immigrants are killing themselves.

Asians like the Italians came for work. America had jobs, religious freedom, and was a land of opportunities, but when the Chinese came, they didn't get any of the stuff they dreamed of when they arrived. The whites discriminated them against because they thought that they came to take their jobs away. Chinese immigration was stopped in 1892 and 1902. A lot of propaganda was spread infavor of laws restricting immigration as means of protecting the American wage earned. In 1875, it was the first restriction of immigration for prostitutes and felons. In 1882 the government reacted to the anti-immigrant feelings, such as anti-Chinese not and the United States enacted further restrictions barring the insane, the retarted, and the people likely to need public care and the Chinese Exclusion Act suspending Chinese laborers for then years.