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The first three ever Chinese Immigrants arrive in Baltimore, Maryland on a ship called the Pallas.
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China begins to struggle due to a large influx in population and growing unrest that led up to the Taiping Rebellion.
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Word of the gold found in California causes thousands of Chinese Immigrants to travel across the Pacific Ocean. Many opened their own stores and businesses, but some went into the mines to look for gold.
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Gold begins to run out, causing the end of the Gold Rush. The people who didn't find gold attempted to start their own businesses and companies, only to be out-competed by the already running Chinese companies. This led to some hostility towards the Chinese over the next several years.
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Due to the fact that a recent ad for the transcontinental railroad only got a few hundred white workers, a man named Charles Crocker had the idea to hire Chinese immigrants looking for a job. 15 to 20 thousand immigrants helped build the railroad for a small amount of pay in dangerous conditions. Over 1000 workers were killed during avalanches while working in the mountains.
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The unrest between the Americans and the Asians eventually led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which was put into effect by Chester A. Arthur. This act banned all immigration from China unless they were American Citizens or related to American Citizens. This Act lasted until 1943, when Franklin D. Roosevelt stated it was a historic mistake to exclude the Chinese.
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Act that banned all Chinese immigrants not related to American Citizens that lasted from 1882 to 1943.
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In 1906, the Francisco Earthquake caused a fire that destroyed many documents that recorded the Citizen documents. To fix this, America built an immigration station in 1910 to fix this, but many people knew American citizens and used them to lie about their citizenship, thus becoming paper sons and daughters.
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As of 2017, there are about 3.8 million Chinese living in America right now.
