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About 200,000 Africans were forcibly transported back to their homeland.
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Spanish speaking black settlers, settle in Los Angeles.
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Mexico declared independence from Spain
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Seventy thousand Native Americans were forced from Old South to Indian Territory.
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Afican Americans migrated to improve their freedom, this improved immigration to Mexican Texas.
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Four thousand African Americans have reached the Golden State (California)
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Peter Brown wrote: : "California is the best . . . place for black folks on the globe. All a man has to do is work and he will make money."
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In 1848 the Gold Rush begin and a vast amount of African Americans came to California.
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Black population grew in the western states from 196,000 to 1,787,000
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Kansas became a magnet for land hungry newcomers.
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30,000 migrants settled in Kansas.
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African Americans from Tennessee migrated into the Indian Territory, but the farmers could not legally own land for a while.
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The black population in Indian territory rised 36,000 supprisingly outnumbering the Native Americans.
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The Southern Pacific Railroads brought black labors to break a working strike.
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West's black population grew by 443,000 (33%) in the cities of California, Oregon, an Washington
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They had 7,599 African Americans in LA; the largest population of blacks on the west.
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In Seattle black population increased by five thousand people.
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Working men during the war started to lose their jobs and become unemployed in the streets of LA
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Half the women in San Francisco begin working as clerks, stenographers, and secretaires.
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Racial discrimination is in employment, housing, and public schools.
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