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    The Discords of the 1849 Chinese Immigrants in California The California Gold Rush was one of most monumental events in the history of the United States. It was responsible for shaping the foundation of the modern class and social system while also creating the first big immigrant trend after the colonial period. The events which followed James W Marshall’s discovery of gold in Coloma‚ California during the year of 1848 were important not only because of the fact that it generated the expatriation

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    offered natural resources such as gold‚ oil‚ and lumber‚ also it gave hope to freedom and landownership all the while guarding it with dangerous obstacle such as natives‚ disease‚ and drought. The forge west brought on all sorts of big European business men preying on ignorant and uneducated people. We see fishermen being conned to buy lands that they would turn over to corporate hands and natives letting go of their titles to white men whom had made them bad deals. The rush west brought in rail roads

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    1-The “Digger” Stereotype: Justification of genocide Judge by prior Native encounters Few practiced agriculture‚ inferior Digging of roots‚ gold Facilitated the intense racism and brutal violence against Indians Inferiority of California Indians: easy to push aside/no match for civilized white society 1-Acorns *Acorns helped confirm the digger stereotype. They were important to indigenous tribes because they were a main stable of food. They had high preservatives and often one harvest could

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    “The burden of proof that the Canadian citizen is not an intended immigrant is always on the applicant” (Protection‚ 2015). Landed immigrants of Canada generally need a visa or passport to enter the United States‚ unless they are part of the Visa Waiver Program will a citizen of a country be eligible. There are approximately 170‚000 residents who apply for citizenship. If someone has lived in Canada for three to four years then they may apply for citizenship. Having a good standing in the community

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    the California Gold Rush. They continued to immigrate with the large labor projects‚ such as the First Transcontinental Railroad. At that time‚ a lot of Chinese immigrated to America. During the early stages of the gold rush‚ surface gold was abundant‚ and Americans tolerated the Chinese took the gold. But later‚ the gold was less and less‚ the white men began to hate Chinese labors. They said the gold was belonged to Americans. So many Chinese people began to give up mining gold‚ and they settled

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    Everyday Life on the Goldfields The gold rushes from 1851 until the early 1900s were very important to Australia’s History. Up to that time‚ Indigenous Australians occupied most of the country‚ although some had already been pushed off their lands. In 1788‚ the first settlers from Europe‚ mostly English and Irish‚ arrived and established new towns along the cost. The First Rushes: In 1851‚ a group of prospectors‚ led by a man called Edward Hargraves‚ found gold near Bathurst in NSW. Within days

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    of December 1854‚ 22 diggers and 5 troops were killed in a battle lasting only 20 minutes known as the Eureka Stockade. The main causes of this battle was due to the gold diggers opposing the Governments miners licenses‚ which was an easy way for the Government to make money on Gold via taxes. The death of James Scobie a Scottish Gold digger also contributed to the Eureka Stockade due to the lack of evidence against his murderers. The miners felt that justice had not been served. The short term results

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    as the state’s "gold village"‚ boasting more than 100 jewellery shops. Their clientele: hundreds of families who have relatives working in the Gulf. The number of gold retailers in Kerala has gone upto 5000 In spite of sky-rocketing prices of the yellow metal-from Rs.4‚395 per 10 gram in 2000 to more than Rs.20‚000 in 2011-its demand has not been seriously affected in Kerala. The South Indian states alone account for 60 per cent of gold sales in India‚ the world’s biggest gold consumer. According

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    California Gold Rush[12] which drew the first significant number of laborers from China who mined for gold and performed menial labor.[13][14][15] There were 25‚000 immigrants by 1852‚ and 105‚465 by 1880‚ most of whom lived on the West Coast. They formed over a tenth of California’s population. Nearly all the early immigrants were young males with low educational levels from six districts in the Guangdong province.[16] The Chinese came to California in large numbers during the California Gold Rush‚ with

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    that’s so cool. Second one:Dining Experiences‚Ghiradellhi’s chocolate factory. The Bay Area’s history with chocolate dates back to the California Gold Rush‚ when Domingo Ghirardelli opened the city’s first chocolate factory in 1852. Ghirardelli (whose father was a chocolatier in Italy) had come to the Bay Area (by way of Uruguay and Peru) to try his hand at gold mining upon a

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