ASAMST 20A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hydraulic Mining, Burlingame Treaty, Card Player
6 Dec 2018
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Desirable to employers (due to shortage of workers) Women discouraged (family at home, discouraging stories) Page law 1875, forbade entry of felons, contract labor, and particularly oriental prostitutes. Placer mines (surface mining only needing water to wash off minerals to gain access to gold), small producers, easy to get into but there was fierce competition between miners and many chinese miners were driven out. Chinese were hired to work but usually not seen in leadership. Had high overhead and capital due to needing to build tracks into the mines. Anti-chinese agitation by politicians and labor leaders. 1848-1883 california produced of all us gold. 1860 84% of all chinese were miners. 1900 only 12% of all chinese were miners. 1850, raised in 1853, ended in 1870. Targeted latinos but eventually moved to all foreigners. 1852-1870: million collected aka 50% of all california state revenues. Chinese were avaricious coolies, immoral(gambling, prostitution) and unassimilable (racial uniform). dangerous to the states welfare.
