1 Jan 1850 Jahr - Foreign Miner's tax

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Background: gold rush, racism by American miners, Chinese miners arrived in the employ of Chinese companies
-White miners called for racist laws to expel Chinese miners

description: A discriminatory tax, adopted in 1850 in California Territory, that forced Chinese and Latin American immigrant miners to pay
high taxes for the right to prospect for gold.

effects: The tax effectively drove these miners from the goldfields.

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