How did Chinese immigrants affect America?

Answer 1

1. They first arrived as Forty-Niners during the California Gold Rush in 1849.

2. The Chinese built the western portion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869, and the Irish built the eastern portion...they linked up on Promotory Point in Utah.

3. Chinese workmen built the levies in Northern California.

Answer 2

For the same reason that most people migrate: they thought that they would do better in their newly chosen country.

Answer: In addition to the desire of the Chinese to get money in the Gold Mountain (rendered in English as Gum Shan or Gumshan) as the northwestern states and British Columbia were known, the Chinese were offered work and encouragement to come to North America by the Americans and Canadians to work in the mines and to construct the railways. They were seen as a cheap hard working labour force. It was thought that, as few Chinese women were allowed, the labourers would return home after their contract ended to resume life in China. To further enhance this, governments enacted strict controls over Immigration of the CHinese as permanent residents and the immigration of spouses and potential spouses.

Answer 3

Alot of Chinese names thru-out California due to the Chinese gold prospectors in 1849; China Camp, China Wall, etc. The railroad would've took alot longer to build, as only the Chinese men were willing to blast thru the granite mountains going thru Donner Pass in the Sierra Mountains. Very few men wanted to handle NITROGLYCERIN in those days!

Answer 4

Starting from the early 1800's, Chinese immigrants have made the arduous, ... and assimilating into U.S. society as European immigrant groups did. ... immigration records and gave leeway for Chinese to bring others from China into America.

Answer 5

clean because there small hands could fit anywhere

Answer 6

They went to California for the search of gold in the San Francisco gold rush.

Answer 7

They came because they're little tiny in disguise.And they want to take all our money.