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The First graduated Chinese in America
Three Chinese students arrive in New York City for schooling. One of them,Yung Wing, graduates from Yale in 1854 and becomes the first Chinese to graduate from a U.S. college. -
The Gols Rush
James Marshall discovered gold at John Sutter's sawmill on the American River at Coloma. This discovery triggered the California Gold Rush. -
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The Gold Rush
Gold Rush
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Foreigner Miners Tax Law
Some 500 immigrants out of 57,787 arriving in California were Chinese.
California state legislature passed the first Foreign Miners' Tax Law, levying a $20-per-month tax on each foreigner engaged in mining. -
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Emigartion of Asian People in America
Chinese migration to the United States is a history of two parts: a first wave from the 1850s to 1880s, halted by federal laws restricting Chinese immigration; and a second wave from the late 1970s to the present.
From the 1850s, political unrest and economic pressures at home prompted thousands of Chinese immigrants to move to the western regions of the United States in search of temporary work. Many took low-skilled jobs as manual laborers in mining, construction, agriculture, manufacturing. -
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Economical development with cheap labor and construction of new town for Chinese emigrant - The Gilded Age-
The Gilded Age was a period of economic growth as the United States jumped to the lead in industrialization ahead of Britain. The nation was rapidly expanding its economy into new areas, especially heavy industry like factories, railroads, and coal mining. Immigration from Europe, China and the eastern states led to the rapid growth of the West, based on farming, ranching and mining. -
development of many china town
Chinatowns in the United States have historically been located in the "big cities" such as New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles, and Chicago and existed initially as enclaves that ease transition into the American culture. The earliest Chinatowns tended to be on the west coast while the newer ones are being built in lesser profile cities as opportunities shift.
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The "Cheap Chinese labor"
Chinese immigrants worked as laborers in the mining industry, and suffered racial discrimination at every level of society. The industrial employers were eager to get this new and cheap labor. Despite the provisions for equal treatment of Chinese immigrants in the 1868 political and labor organizations rallied against the immigration of what they regarded as a degraded race and "cheap Chinese labor". -
Construction of the Transcontinental railroad
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD Twelve thousand Chinese working in construction of the railroad. Union Pacific joined the Central Pacific at Promontory Point, Utah, on May 10. -
Begining of the Chinese discrimination
Chinese men were stereotyped as degenerate heroin addicts whose presence encouraged prostitution, gambling, and other immoral activities. A number of cities on the West Coast experienced riots in which Whites attacked Asians and destroyed Chinese sections of town. Riots in Seattle in 1886 resulted in practically the entire Chinese population being rounded up and forcibly sent to San Francisco. Similar situations in other towns encouraged Chinese workers scattered throughout the West to relocate -
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Yellow Peril / Yellow Terror
"YELLOW PERIL" was a racial epithet directed against persons of Asian descent that was fashionable in Europe and America in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries -
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Growing of the Asian populationin America
The 1890 decennial census reports a Chinese-born resident population exceeding 100,000; records show that nearly 300,000 Chinese immigrants entered the United States between 1850 and 1889, though historians estimate that as many as half ultimately returned to China. -
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The Rebillion Period
1900: Japanese began to replace Chinese as agricultural workers.
1906: San Francisco earthquake and fire; destruction of municipal records led to phenomenon of "Paper Sons." Concern over relocating Chinatown after the earthquake.
Use of Angel Island as immigration station began. -
Renewal of the Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Law of 1882 renewed in 1892 through the Geary Act. It is renewed again in 1902 to become stricter (by concentrating chinese in streets or camps) , and extended indefinitely, until it was repealed in 1943. -
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The First World War
1914-1918:Some Chinese Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces in World War I and became heroes.
1924:The Immigration Exclusion Act was passed, continuing discrimination against Asian immigrants.
1930s:Restrictions against Chinese immigrants began to ease. In 1930, Congress passed an act providing for admission of Chinese wives who were married to American citizens before May 26, 1924. -
Naturalization Act
Public Law 162 granted several hundred Asian veterans who served in the United States Armed Forces during World War I the right to apply for United States citizenship through naturalization. -
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Second World War
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Pearl Harbor
Pear Harbor (National Tragedy) Watch The Video and read the summary below till the end of the page , please -
Decret of extermination of Chinese people in a "death Camp"
relocation Camps Watch The Video and read the summary below till the end of the page , please -
Magnus Act
The Magnuson Act of 1943, better known as the Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act, rescinds the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 for geopolitical and military reasons, thereby allowing Chinese immigrants to obtain citizenship status. An immigration cap of 105 Chinese are allowed to immigrate annually.
China and the United States become World War II allies against Japan. The U.S. Army drafts over 20 percent of Chinese men living in the U -
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Mondialisation
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Jerry Yang co-founded Yahoo!
Jerry Yang co-created the Yahoo! Internet navigational guide in April 1994 with David Filo and co-founded Yahoo! Inc. a year later. Yahoo! started off as a web portal with a web directory to providing an extensive range of products and services for online activities, it is now one of the leading internet brands and has the most trafficked network on the internet. -
Gary Locke is the first Chinese American to become the governor of a U.S. state
Washington voters elect Gary Locke to the governor’s seat. Locke is the first Chinese American to become the governor of a U.S. state. -
Steven Chu won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics
By devising a brilliant method for using six lasers to trap and cool sodium atoms down to 240 millionths of a degree above absolute zero, Steven Chu enabled a quantum leap in the study of the relationship between matter and energy. His work won him the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics. -
Andrea jung became president in 1998 and CEO in 1999 of Avon Products, Inc. becoming one of the few Fortune 500 women CEOs
Andrea Jung, made history when she became president in 1998 and CEO in 1999 of Avon Products, Inc., making her one of the few Fortune 500 women CEOs and giving her the reins of one of America’s largest cosmetics and beauty products companies. She is currently the Chairman & CEO Avon Products, Inc. -
20th Anniversary of MOCA
The Museum of Chinese in the Americas celebrated its 20th anniversary. MoCA is one of a handful museums dedicated to Chinese American history. -
Steve Chen co-founds Youtube
Steve Chen became the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube. In June 2006, Chen was named by Business 2.0 as one of the "The 50 people who matter now" in business. On October 16, 2006, Chen and co-founder Chad Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion.
