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GOLD RUSH
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emigration of chines of America
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ECONOMICAL DEVELOPMENT
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Development of many china town
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Chinese laborer was called "cheap chinese labor"
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Construction of the transcontinental railroad
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Chinese Massacre of 1871
The Chinese Massacre of 1871 was a racially motivated riot when a mob of over 500 white men entered Los Angeles’ Chinatown to attack, loot, and murder Chinese residents of the city. -
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YELLOW PERIL
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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The Rock Springs Massacre
The Rock Springs Massacre, also known as the Rock Springs Riot, occurred on September 2, 1885. The riot which involved Chinese immigrant miners and white immigrant miners, was the result of racial tensions and an ongoing labor dispute over the policy of paying Chinese miners lower wages than white miners. As a result of the policy, Chinese miners were hired over white miners, which further angered the white miners. While these were all factors that contributed to the riot, racial tensions were a -
Chinese Exclusion Act was Reneved and Stricter
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The San Francisco Earthquake
The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 displaced hundreds of thousands of people throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Largely damaged by the earthquake and fire was San Francisco’s Chinatown, hundreds of causalities in Chinatown went ignored and unrecorded. -
Angel Island Immigration Station Opens
An immigrant processing facility in San Francisco Bay, referred to as the “west Ellis Island”. Angel Island was starkly different than Ellis Island, in that many of the 56, 000 Asian immigrants who came through Angel Island were held in the immigration detention centers for months, weeks, and even years. -
The first Asian Hollywood star
Sessue Hayakawa became the first Asian to star in a Hollywood film with the release of The Typhoon. -
“Barred Zone” Immigration Law
Also know as Immigration Act of 1917 and the Asiatic Barred Zone Act. This law added to the list of “undesirables”, who were prevented from entering the country based on their national origins. -
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SECOND WORLD WAR
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Angel Island Immigration Center Fire/Closes Down
A fire destroyed the Administration Office and Detention of Angel Island, resulting in the UF mandated closing of the immigration center. -
Pearl Harbor (national Tragedy)
The Empire of Japan attacked the United States Naval Base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack was preventive, intended to stop the US Pacific Fleet from interfering with Japanese Southeast Asia campaign, against overseas allies, some of which were US allies. This initiated US involvement in World War II and later, the bombing of two Japanese cities. -
Decret of extermination of Chinese people in a "death camp"
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Executive Order 9066
Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an exclusion order that authorized the United States Secretary of War to detain and exclude individuals as deemed necessary regardless of ethnicity or race, and also transform specific areas into military zones. While it did not target a specific ethnic group or race, it did discreetly aim and target the Japanese American community. Accordingly, about 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry were forced from their homes and relocated into mak -
Magnunson Act
Repealed the exclusion of Chinese immigration, however there was a quota of 100 Chinese immigrants selected by U.S. government who were allowed to enter the United States annually. -
Internal Security Act
The Internal Security Act was the informal Chinese Confession Program during the Cold War, the provisions were targeted at immigrants and progressive political movements. -
First Asian American Hollywood legend
Bruce Lee became the first Asian American Hollywood action superstar and legend when Enter the Dragon premiered at Grauman’s Chinese Theater. -
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Second Wave of Vietnamese Refugees
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First Asian American In Space
Ellison Shoji Onizuka, a Japanese American from Hawaii, became the first Asian American astronaut in space with the Space Shuttle Discovery. -
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MONDIALISATION
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September 11 Attacks
World Trade Centers in New York City collapsed as a result of suicide attacks that involved two hijacked commercial jet airliners crashing into the towers. The United States pointed that the terrorist attacks were affliated with al-Queda, a militant Islamic terrorist organization, and called for retribution against Osama bin Laden. Most importantly, the attacks sparked an outbreak of discrimination, violence. So discrimination against Chinese was weakened. -
First Asian American Band to Top Billboard
Far East Movement is the first Asian American Band earn a top ten hit on the Mainstream Pop charts in the United States. Far East Movement is an Asian American electro hop quartet based in Los Angeles, and consists of Kevin Nishimura, James Roh, Jae Choung, and Virman Coquia. Their single “Like a G6″ hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart in December of 2010. -
Jeremy Lin
Jeremy Lin became the first American born player in the NBA player to be of Chinese/Taiwanese descent signed out of Harvard into a two year deal with the Golden State Warriors.
