HILD 2A-B-C Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Strike Action, Monopoly Capital, Fifteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
19 Mar 2018
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15th amendment loophole allowed for discrimination in other ways that wasn(cid:821)t race/color. Sn: needed states to ratify for amendment. Democrats wanted to limit franchise to only whites. Republican leaders supported 15th, counterarguing to democrats saying it sets the boundary where it belongs. Said to just limit by non christian to exclude irish and chinese. Ca democrats worried efforts by missionaries would convert chinese so then they could vote. U. s congress withheld right for chinese people to naturalize. Called them (cid:824)aliens unable to be citizen(cid:825) Ca and west in general because known for its diversity (native americans, whites to array of all migrants of u. s, had small african american population and growing. When all white ca legislation, chinese targeted. Also had californios population: mexicans already in area before mexican. 322k, mostly young chinese men came from southern china province. Chinese immigrant became miners, railroad workers contract laborer.
