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Gold Rush
When the Gold Rush happened in California, Chinese men came to America eager to make money to support their families. Most of the men who came from China were bachelors. -
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association
When Chinese men started up a protesting group because they felt that it was unfair about how they were being treated and how they weren't able to testify in court against a white man just like the blacks, mulattos and Indians. -
African-Americans Moving
"An early exodus from the South occurred between 1879 and 1881, when about 60,000 African-Americans moved into Kansas and others settled in the Oklahoma Indian Territories in search of social and economic freedom." -
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Immigration-Migration
It was a time when the Chinese Immigrants left China to come to America. -
Chinese men
By 1880 the male ratio to women was 20:1 and they lived and worked in China towns, in groups according to their district or region.Husbands left their wives and kids and parents sent their sons to come to America. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
First Law restricting Immigration in the U.S. -
Geary Act
After the Chinese Exclusion Act expired, Congress made an Geary Act extending Chinese Immigration -
African-Americans
By the 1900s, even after the slaves were free, 90% of them still lived in the South and the rest in the Midwest or North. -
Geary Act- 2
Ten Years after the Geary Act expired, Congess made new restrctions telling Immigrants that if they want to stay in the U.S. the had to get a Certificate of Residence. If they didn't get one then s/he would have been deported. -
African-American Population
"In the decade between 1910 and 1920, the black population of major Northern cities grew by large percentages, including New York (66 percent) Chicago (148 percent), Philadelphia (500 percent) and Detroit (611 percent)." -
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The Great Migration
A time when Blacks moved North from South. Five Million Blacks Moved North and West. -
World War I
The first Movement of Blacks to the North and West was during WWI. -
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Leaving the South
Over three million blacks left the South For the North and West. -
Moving
The movement of African-Americans within the United States continues today. -
African-American Rights
"While segregation was not legalized in the North (as it was in the South), racism and prejudice were widespread. After the U.S. Supreme Court declared racially based housing ordinances unconstitutional in 1917, some residential neighborhoods enacted covenants requiring white property owners to agree not to sell to blacks; these would remain legal until the Court struck them down in 1948."