HIST 1378 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Lester Frank Ward, Haymarket Affair

• School: University of Houston
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 1378
• Professor: Tillery Tyrone

Document Summary

It is not true that taos indians, allied with navajo and apaches, forced out anglo. Hispanics in california often lost their lands during the 1840s. The term coolie referred to chinese indentured servants during the nineteenth century. White americans in the 1840s and 1850s in far west responded to chinese people in america by moving from acceptance to gradual hostility. Chinese from california became a huge source for railroad because they worked for lower wages than what whites would accept. The largest single chinese community in the far west in the 1870s was san francisco. The chinese exclusion act of 1882 deported half of the chinese that were in the us. The working class in the western economy during the 2nd half of the nineteenth century was highly multiracial and divided along racial lines. People also had paid higher wages than workers in the east. Mining in the west produced the 1st economic boom in the region.