Sze Yup, and other such Chinese organizations, met Chinese newcomers to the gold rush at the docks ... By the end of the 1850s, Chinese immigrants made up one-fifth of the population of the ...

Ivey drove his RV to this lab, run by the state's Archaeological Research Center, to participate in the excavation of a ...

A political cartoon from The San Francisco Wasp advocating for the Chinese Exclusion Law, 1882. Meaningful immigration from China occurred during the California Gold Rush. People came from all ...

the US welcomed immigrants; the gold rush and the construction of America's transcontinental railways created demand for ...

In this lesson, students learn about the California Gold Rush of 1849 through miners’ letters and art/photos, then research the role of the “invisibles”—minority groups and immigrants ...

an area that has a rich history surrounding Chinese immigrants, each year. "The Chinese miners built 30 Chinatowns during the gold rush. This is the only one that still stands," said Brian Tom ...

WASHINGTON--Beijing and Washington have quietly resumed cooperation on the deportation of Chinese immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally, as the two countries are reestablishing and widening ...

A rare Chinese temple from the Gold Rush era will continue to be on display in Lewiston, but it's going to have a new home. Artifacts from the Beuk Aie Temple are moving from the Lewis-Clark State ...

Chinese immigrants first started coming to California in search of fortune during the Gold Rush. After being driven out of the gold mines due to discrimination and restrictive legislation against ...

The California gold rush of 1849 had triggered America's earliest wave of Chinese immigration, with some 66,000 people, mostly men, arriving over the next decade. (About half of them stayed.) ...