ASIA 2170 Lecture Notes - Anson Burlingame, Central Pacific Railroad, Burlingame Treaty
Document Summary
Today chinese immigration is whole family immigration not just men. The united states decided to build a railroad called the us transcontinental. Hired a lot of chinese people to build the most difficult sections for the railroad. The chinese labour were cheap wall so railroad. The companies believe that the chinese were able to build the great. They believed the chinese could build this difficult section of the. Chinese were paid 25-35 a month not including housing and food. 1868, the burlingame treaty of was signed between china and the us. Was the us minister/ambassador in 1864 (after 2nd opium war) of. Countries promised to allow immigrants from each other. Caused the second wift (gold rush was first wift) 1869-1880, the chinese population of the us tripled. 1870- 25 percent of the california neighbours population were chinese. A lot of social problems : gambling, opium, prostitutional business.
