1 янв 1850 г. - 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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1 янв 1850 г.
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~ 175 г назад