Chinese Immigrants In The United States Of America

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production, established themselves in Hawaii. From 1852 onwards, their small community began to expand as a result of recruiting about two hundred Chinese laborers to work in the sugar plantations. Later the Chinese entered the mainland areas during the mid eighteenth century.

The famous California Gold Rush in the mid 1800s also played a significant role in the Chinese immigration.
Despite the flood of Chinese immigrants during that time, their population began to
fall drastically. Because of laws such as the Chinese Exclusion Act, the highly
imbalanced male to female ratio, and the thousands of immigrants returning back to
China, the Chinese population in the U.S. fell to a lowly 62,000 people in 1920
(Immigration: The Journey To America).

It is essentially important to know that the early Chinese immigrants were actually successful and wealthy merchants who were warmly welcomed by the Americans. They were quite skillful as farmers, ...

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such as restaurants, laundries, and other personal service concerns.
After the gold rush, Chinese immigrants worked as agricultural laborers, on railroad
construction crews throughout the West, and in low-paying industrial jobs (Chinese
Immigration To The United States, 1851-1900).

The early Chinese settled down in the areas of Hawaii, Maine and California and San Francisco as a result of the Gold Rush. The lived in groups and labored austerely and surviving prudently. After a period of time, when the Chinese immigrants began to grow in number, they created large cities of racial enclaves known as Chinatown.

The first and most important of the ...

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