PLS 392 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Know Nothing, California Gold Rush, Burlingame Treaty
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These policies were not national, but state-level: foreign miners" tax: in 1850 every foreign miner was required to pay a license of. So they moved it to /month: they also designated tax collectors, counties could keep 50% of collections, 1853 raised it to . Legislature that chinese weren"t eligible for naturalization, so their tax increased by. In 1868, the presidential rest was closer in the west (against republican candidate) Gilded age: us economy grew at its fastest rate ever, westward expansion after the civil war, railroad construction increased the need for workers, panic of 1873 and depression: until 1879. Chinese exclusion act was repealed in 1943 with the magnuson act. this is because china and the us were allies in ww2 against the japanese. It allowed chinese already in the country to become naturalized citizens. It allowed an annual quote of 105 chinese immigrants per year.
