HIST 114 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Santa Barbara City College, Chinese Tea, Sightseers
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White men in power realized that without getting in trouble, they could take advantage of. Chinese miners: also because the chinese couldn"t speak english, they couldn"t explain that they were being robbed to the authorities. The first chinatown: while most of the chinese immigrants who settled in california in the early. 1850s lived in mining camps, others lived in san francisco itself: like most groups of immigrants, the chinese concentrated in one part of the town. In their new home they sold common foods and supplies to the chinese people: before long, chinese grocery stores opened, these products soon became famous in san francisco with others too. It sold things like tea, dried meat, fish, poultry, and fresh vegetables. Residents and sightseers alike have visited restaurants in chinatown: the restaurants ranged from plain, one room cellar businesses feeding hungry miners to lavish, fancy catering dining rooms for wealthy clients.
