The Move Westward – The 49ers

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Who came looking for Gold?

They transport their culture to California and encounter racism and discrimination

Hatred is because the Chinese are hardworking and become the scapegoat for American failure during the Gold Rush

Chinese immigrants take jobs that no American will do like cooking and laundry

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Who came looking for Gold?

The Chinese are attacked by groups called “nativists”

To keep the Chinese from coming to the United States the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is passed that prohibits the immigration of Chinese into America

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Statehood for California

It becomes a state in 1850

California enters as a free state in the United States

California upsets the balance of Congress seats on the side of the Northern states

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