jan 1, 1850 - Foreign Miner's tax
Description:
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.
Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 1850
Now
~ 175 years ago