Severe economic depression; extreme anti-asian racism in the pacific states (mar 11, 1868 – jan 1, 1879)

Description:

-asian immigrants faced harsher treatment
-1st asian immigrants during gold rush
-after civil war, Burlingame Treaty->more emigration
-southern China= poverty +upheaval

-asians did low-wage jobs, face violence
-got worse in depression
-majority of asian ppl lived in pacific coast states

See Kearney burns San Francisco's Chinatown July 1877 and Rock Springs Massacre in 1885


-despite atrocities, some Chinese ppl built profitable businesses/farms, many times this was by going into available industries that native-born Americans let them do: restaurants/laundries

Added to timeline:

Date: