Sze Yup, and other such Chinese organizations, met Chinese newcomers to the gold rush at ... tide of Chinese immigration. A Chinese man responded with a letter to the Alta California, writing ...

A political cartoon from The San Francisco Wasp advocating for the Chinese Exclusion Law, 1882. Meaningful immigration from China occurred during the California Gold Rush. People came from all ...

Like many get-rich-quick quests, the California gold rush caused a wave of destruction ... The law led many Chinese mining immigrants to head south to San Francisco where they established ...

A Rush of Gold Seekers By 1849, the non-native population of California had grown to almost 100,000 people. Nearly two-thirds were Americans. Upon arrival in California, immigrants learned mining ...