The Chinese in the 19th Century Flashcards
Most Chinese immigrants were:
farmers
What were the main causes of the Chinese immigration?
Famine
Heavy taxes
Construction workers
Land shortages
What was the chinese population during the mid 19th Century?
60 million
what problems caused the growth of the chinese population?
Population growth in China caused land shortages, famine, and an increased poverty
The Daoguang Depression also coincided with the two most traumatic events of nineteenth-century China:
Opium War & Taiping Rebellion
In what year did the Daoguang Depression start?
1820
The Foreign Miner’s Tax required a payment of ___ dollars each month
$3 dollars
During the Gold Rush Chinese miners were making about ___ dollars a month.
$6 dollars a month
The Foreign Miner’s Tax existed until the year ____.
1870
It created a mechanized transportation network that revolutionized the population and economy of the American West.
Transcontinental Railroad
Why were chinese workers cheaper than other workers?
There were more of them
Name the Act published on 1790 that limited access to U.S. citizenship to white immigrants only.
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Name the law that extended the Chinese Exclusion Act for 10 years
Geary Law
The Chinese were allowed into the country when The Chinese Exclusion Act was in place.
true, the chinese were allowed to enter the country after the act was in place
When did the first wave of Chinese Immigrants arrive to the USA?
Mid 1800’s
