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Gold Rush
A gold rush is an interval of feverish migration of workers to an area that has had a dramatic discovery of gold deposits. Major gold rushes took place in the 19th century in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, and the United States, while smaller gold rushes took place elsewhere. -
Chinese Emigration to América
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Minor taxes for chinese
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First China Town in Los Angeles
The first Chinese people to reach Los Angeles were recorded to be there in 1852. They continued to migrate there throughout 1870. By 1870, Chinatown had more of a recognizable settlement and town. It consisted of 200 or more citizens within the small block that they called home. They lived in a broken down alley that was dark, and run down. It was a short alley that was 50 feet wide, and one block long that no one wanted to go down. -
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Economical Developement
Economical development with cheap labor and creation of a new town for Chinese. Chinese workers become more and more numerous -
The transcontinental railroad´s construction
A transcontinental railroad is a contiguous network of railroad trackage that crosses a continental land mass with terminals at different oceans or continental borders. Such networks can be via the tracks of either a single railroad, or over those owned or controlled by multiple railway companies along a continuous route. -
Begining of chinese discrimination
American people start to feel invaded by Chinese people and racism appears all over the country. -
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Yellow Peril
Yellow Peril (sometimes Yellow Terror) was a color metaphor for race, namely the theory that Asian peoples are a mortal danger to the rest of the world. In the words of the American historian John W. Dower: "the vision of the menace from the East was always more racial rather than national. It derived not from concern with any one country or people in particular, but from a vague and ominous sense of the vast, faceless, nameless yellow horde: the rising tide, indeed, of color." -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The American government creates an act that forbids any Chinese immigration, preventing families to reunite and other people to come -
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Second World War
Global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, though related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the world's nations. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. It resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. -
Creation of relocation camps
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Magnuson act
The Magnuson Act,known as the Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act of 1943, was immigration legislation proposed by U.S. Representative Warren G.Magnuson of Washington and signed into law on December 17,1943 in the United States.It allowed Chinese immigration for the first time since the Chinese Exclusion Act, and permitted some Chinese immigrants already residing in the country to become naturalized citizens. -
Closing of the last relocation camp
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The awarding of restitution payments to the camps survivors
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Imigration ban
California passes a law to forbid the entry of Chinese and "Mongolians"