HIST-UA 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Sinocentrism, Denis Kearney, Plains Indians
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The workingman"s part of california was created in 1878 by denis kearney. He was an irish immigrant, and he took up the call as the attacking the chinese grew. It gained significant political power in the state in the large idea of the hostility toward the chinese. 1880s anti-chinese agitation and violence had spread all of the pacific coast and areas of the west: bonanza kings. The bonanza kings was a nickname given to the four men who started a stock brokerage called. Flood and o"brien, which is also known as the bonanza firm. Fair had the mining ideas and flood and o"brien raised the money. The purchase price of the claims became a source of wealth: frederick jackson turner. Frederick jackson turner was a historian form the university of wisconsin and he had statements of the romantic vision of the frontier.
