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Mei Guo

Zhong Guo

Chinese Coming To America

China = Middle Country

America = Beautiful Country

Railroad

Questions?

  • Mining profits had already begun to decrease, however, and the Chinese were leaving the gold fields. Thousands of them joined other Chinese migrants to work on the railroad. In February 1865, fifty Chinese workers were hired by the Central Pacific Railroad to help lay tracks for the transcontinental line leading east from Sacramento; shortly afterward, fifty more were hired.
  • Immigrant Laborers were praisd by the company's president, Leland Stanford. "Quiet, peaceable, industrious, economical - ready and apt to learn all the new kinds of work" was their praise.

Challenges During The Railroad

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Determind to accelerate construction, the managers forced Chinese laborers to work through the winter of 1866. Snow drifts, over sixty feet tall, covered constrution operations. Workers lived and worked in tunnels under the snow, with shafts for air and lanterns for light. Work was dangerous, occasionally deadly.

Chinese VS Citizenship

From the gold fields of the Serrias came the nativist cry: "California for Americans." In 1850, the legislature enacted a foreign miners' tax designed to eliminate Mexican miners. This law soon repealed, but in 1852, the legislature entacted another foreign miners' tax. Aimed mainly at the Chinese, this tax required a monthly payment of three dollars from every foreign miner who did not desire to become a citizen. Even if they had wanted to, the Chinese could not become citizens, for they had been rendered ineligible for citizenship be a 1790 federal law that reserved naturaized citizenship for "white" persoms. The foreign miners' tax remained in for until it was voided by the 1870 Civil Rghts At. By then, California had collected five million dollars from the Chinese.

Strikes

  • Chinese workers had soon begun to demand wages of forty-five dollars and a eight hour day. Five thousand laborers walked out "as one man." The company offered wages from thirty-one dollars to thirty-five dollars a month, but the strikers stood by their original demands.
  • Superintendent Crocker isolated the strikers and cut off their food supply.
  • Virtually imprisoned in their camps in the Sierras and starving, the strikers surrendered within a week.

Chinese Coming to America

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Chinese and the Railroad

Why Immigrate to Amerca?

  • Harsh Economic conditions also drove Chinese migrants to seek survival in America.

How Many?

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Why Emigrate from China?

  • Learning about Gam Saan or Gold Mountain many of the younger, more impatient, and more daring Chinese left their villages for America.
  • To the hopeful migrants, America possessed an alluring boundlessness, promising not only gold but also opportunities for employment.

By 1930 about 400,000 Chinese had made the Pacific crossing to America. About half of them stayed and made the United States their permanent home.

  • Many sought sanctuary from intense conflicts caused by the British Opium Wars.
  • Many were fleeing from the turmiol of peasent rebellions such as the Red Turban Rebellion and the bloody strife between the Punti and the Hakkas over the position of fertile lands.

1. Why is China called Zhong Guo or middle country?

Probably not mentioned but should be simple

2. Name one reason Chinese left their country.

3. Name one reason Chinese came to America

Answers!

1. China is literally the Middle Country

4. What did the Central Pacific Railroad do in 1865?

2. Sanctuary or Fleeing

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3. Gold Mountain, Allure, or Survival

4. Transcontiental Railriad

5. 400,000

5. How many Chinese made the journey to America by 1930?

6. Beautiful Country

  • Hands raised will be able to answer
  • Right answers will receive candy
  • Stay quiet and do not disrupt

6. What does America mean in Chinese?

Thank you ^.^

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