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Drought destroys The crops and livestock on Huang's small farm.
Drought started on July 2. All of Huang's livestock and crops were destroyed. He can not make money and survive in China. Foods at supermarkets are too expensives. He hears of great job opportunities in America from his fellow farmer neighbors. He packs to go to America. Huang already learned English during his childhood. Huang is single, not married. -
Ellis island
Huang Packs his bags for the journey towards America. He brings all of his clothes and money he has left and he brings a weapon for self defense. he arrives at Ellis Island in the evening. He has a long and gloomy inspection and he is allowed to enter the United States. -
Huang gets a job in New York
Huang is able to live in a hotel room in New York for a few days.
He learns English. He finds a job later on as a cashier at a store in New York. He become stable and is able to afford to buy a big apartment. He is able to live on this stable life for a few years. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Huang is layed off by his boss in New York. Since he loses his job, he has no way to survive at first. He gets help from a new American friend he made named John Morgan who feels sorry for Chinese immigrants at that time and is able to survive for the next ten years. He lives with Morgan in his house until the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1982 is repealed. -
Huang decides that he wants to explore the west and he sets out to find a new place to make a better living in the west
Huang hears people talking about the great things in the west such as great land and gold and silver strikes in the west. He says good buy to John Morgan and sets out on a journey to the west. The journey to the west was difficult. Spring sometimes brought floods, summer brought souring temperatures, and winter brought cruel blizzards. Huang met many types of settlers on his westward journey. He met miners, farmers and
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Life in Denver, Colorado
Huang settles in Denver, Colorado. Denver is a busy and thriving city. Huang gets a job as a railroad builder. He gets to know other chinese railroad builders. He contributes to building the railroad for a few years. After working on railroads for several years, he is able opens a shop in a nearby chinatown and slowly gets rich. Two historical acts that affected experience in west was he helped build railroads and he contributed and helped expanded Chinatown.
