Like generations of immigrants before them, the Chinese cross the Pacific looking for a better life than they could hope to find in their homeland. Relatively few arrive in California before the Gold Rush, but after 1848 the numbers increase dramatically. The young men who leave China because of the turmoil at end of Xing dynasty send their earnings back to China to support families at home. At first, hard-working Chinese immigrants find success as prospectors, but their fortunes are restricted when special tax legislation is passed in 1852, a Foreign Miners Tax which deters Chinese and Mexicans from competing in gold fields, Just as mining declines as a source of jobs, railroad employment grows as a result of the treaty the U. S. negotiates with China allowing immigrants to work on the Transcontinental Railroad.

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Gold Rush, increase in Chinese migration, turmoil at end of Xing dynasty, earnings support families in China, initial success as prospectors, Foreign Miners Tax, U. S. Treaty with China, Chinese laborers and Transcontinental Railroad, Conquest of the Far West

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