HIS 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Toleration

• School: University of Hartford
• Department: History - A&S
• Course: HIS 130
• Professor: Professor Bartram

Document Summary

Excerpts from mining life in california harper"s weekly, october 3rd, 1857 (i had some trouble organizing these notes because the author flip flops a lot on their stance, so they might be a bit confusing. By this time, gold mining in california was from individuals doing most of the mining to corporations running most of the mining operations. White americans weren"t happy with chinese immigrants prospectors in california. By 1857, harper"s weekly was a big-time national newspaper that played to various intellectual communities (i think) Chinese people would eventually become the first nationality that the us specifically barred from entering the country because of their nationality- however, this doesn"t happen until the chinese exclusion act years later. The author claims that chinese immigrants aren"t a threat, writing that instead they"re a. Every now and then, a conflict would break out between chinese immigrants and. American indians- they were the type of conflicts that ended in violence.