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The severe drought in Henan Province in 1847, the flooding of the Yangtze River in the four provinces of Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, and the famine in Guangxi in 1849.-Push
California Gold Rush-pull
Chinese workers/miners
"The Chinaman seemingly must work. If he cannot secure work at a high wage he will take it at a low wage, but he is a good bargainer for his labor and only needs the opportunity to ask for more pay."
Chinese immigration was economic hardship due to the growing British dominance over China after Britain defeated China in the Opium War of 1839-1842.-Push
Basically the Chinese man must work. If he can not do the work for what they pay him, he'll just have to except the low wage until he can do the work for the large wage.
Americans hating on the Chinese
The discovery of gold in 1848 brought a huge wave of chinese(gold rush)
At first, when gold was plentiful in California, Chinese immigrants were treated extremely well by others in the area. Governor McDougal said that they were," One of the most worthy of our newly adopted citizens."
A few years after the gold rush began, Chinese immigrants began to be treated terribly. They were accused of stealing jobs and driving down wages... Chinese immigrants were now viewed as exotic and inferior, rather then interesting and exciting.
About 300,000 chinese entered the US to work as miners in gold mines, laundry and grocery operators in urban communities, farm laborers in agricultural areas or fishermen in the villages of California.
"As the dream of gold faded, these men found themselves stranded in a strange new land far from home. It was a land that did not welcome them, a land that afforded them few means of survival, and a land in which they were very much alone."
The chinese thought that they'd become rich upon arrival in California but soon found that there was no gold, now they are stuck with no money to go home. They were treated terribly so no one would help them, they had to create a new life in a place that rejected them.
http://immigrationtounitedstates.org/425-chinese-immigrants.html?newsid=425
http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Chinese_Immigration
http://classroom.synonym.com/difficulties-chinese-immigrants-late-1800s-21290.html
http://califgoldrush.weebly.com/chinese-immigrants1.html
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~sford/alternatv/s05/articles/leo_history.html
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/chinhate.html
The Chinese went to California after hearing there was Gold, the americans welcomed them with open arms but when they found no gold the americans harmed the Chinese. The Chinese worked for low wages, also could not return to China because they used all their money for supplies plus didn't find any gold to pay for the trip back.
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/immigration/chinese2.html
http://www.goldrushcolony.com.au/australian-gold-history-culture-info/chinese-australian-gold-fields/anti-chinese-racism
The Chinese came seeking economic opportunity. In the process, however, the Chinese faced discrimination and legal restrictions, such as the infamous Chinese Exclusion Act.
Despite making up 20 percent of San Francisco's population by the end of the 1850s, the Chinese were routinely robbed at the mines, and faced a $3 Foreign Miners Tax that was specifically designed for the Chinese.
Chinese immigrants had to go through San Francisco to get to California
The majority of Chinese men who came to NSW were not individual fortune hunters, but came as a family representative seeking an essential and supplementary income for his family and his wife who had been left at home to honor her primary role as support for her in-laws.
Most Chinese men that went represented families that were looking for money to support them.