CLUSTER 20A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gold Rush, Native Hawaiians, Big Business
Document Summary
Asian-descent population of us 17. 3 million (including 2. 6 million of mixed heritage), 5. 6% of the u. s population. 1. 2 million native hawaiians and other pacific islander. Patterns of early asian immigration (late 19th and early 20th centuries) Men-- small groups in canada and the pacific coast. Did not go to hawaii and not attracted to the gold rush. Immigration laws and 5 period of asian immigration. Chinese exclusion act of 1882 (included provision denying naturalization and citizenship to chinese immigrants) Reduced to token number only 50 can enter. Immigration and nationality act (hart- celler act) 1965. Whaling grounds -- depletion bc of over fishing. People were looking for new sources of sugar. Early immigration and work in the us west. Leland stanford, collis huntington, charles crocker, mark hopkins. Fields for asian labor - mining, railroad construction, and agriculture. They tried other minority groups, but not "ideal" Blacks-- less desriable bc post civil rights -- cannot be forced to do labor.
