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51 Cards in this Set
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Gold mining techniques (3)
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plaser mining-pan for gold (independent)
mechanized mining-dig deeper, water often powering tools industrial mining-even deeper, hydrolic miing, heavy jets of water to get gold from side of mountain |
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coolies
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unfree laborers, degrading status of "workin man"
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Rock Springs, Wymoing
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Rock Springs, Wymoing Massacre-28 Chinese died in while mining
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scott act
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living in the US, go back to China, can't return
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tongs
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chinese gangs, control of drugs and prostitutes. bad image for asians.
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reconstruction 1866 Civil Rights Act
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-act to protect everybody, -everybody borin in US (except Indians) are US citizens
-14th Amednment ratified in 1869, (indians included in 1869) |
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land reform
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-40 acres and a mule, give blacks a chance to own landand survive
-didn't work b/c white were implementing it. |
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Wong, Same, and assistants
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"english-chinese phrase book" read about experience of Chinese, learn how to do business and survive
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chinese moved to the south, replaced slaves as.. .(agriculture)
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labor contractors, merchants, tennants, fruit peddlers
laundry, reaturants, domestic servants (women work) |
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6 companies
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chinese formed 6companies, district associates, taught English.
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prostituion and the Page Act
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women stolen from China (lured), contracted from 4-6 years, can be broken, no legal recourse, could stay longer;
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Japanese terms-
-issei -nisei |
issei-immigrant/First Gen
nisei-Am. born/Second Gen. |
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commodore matthew perry
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chosen to go to Japan, to open them up. set up squadron-fire ammunition to display power, gave japan model locomotive(symbol of technology); japan-sumo-->unequal trade, meji era-modernize.
-shar prise in commerce |
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hawaii sovereignty
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sugar plantations-James cook discovers hawaii, william cooper-first sugar platnion, hawaiian dying b/c of diseases (which is why they all conver to Christianity)
-Japanese first to come. (middle class) |
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Pidgeon word for "work -work"
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hana-hana, luna=overseer=different ethnicity (made ethnicities fight w/ each ohter)
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teddy roosevelt
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didnt' understand why Americans hurt Jap. --gentlemen's aggreement
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Boxer Rebellion
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killed western missinaries.(in china)
korea allow missionaries to overthrow Japanese |
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Horace Allen
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one of first missionary in Korea, save King's life, arrangement w/ japand and hawaii sugar plantation
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Why did Japn annex Korea?
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protectorate of Korea-control them, Korewa now part of Japan (no European country prtoested), US deal with Japan (US no mess with Korea, Japan no mress with Phillipines)
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Yumin
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Korea "Drifiting people"
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Phillip Jasiokn
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left Korea, first MD, married white woman (first of such marriage)
-leader of anti-colonail mvmt -formed 1st Korean Congres |
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Ahn Chang-Ho
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-1st community Korean org-friendship society-maintain morals, no smoke or drink
-killed by Japanese |
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Syngman Rhee
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first president of Korea
belived in indepednce through winning Am. friendship and support, PHD in princenton, Masters in Harvard, convert to Christianit, ousted from power |
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“Yellow Peril”
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-fighing for citizenship on basis for American democracy
-1790 Naturalized Act: only “free white persons” could obtain citizenship -citizenship=manliness.. Asians not men. |
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Transcontinental Railroad-
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-a lot of Chinese worked on it.
-Low wage and very dangerous. -Chinese had some strikes, but owners withheld food and almost brought in black workers to break the striekes. -Uta-Promontory Pt. (1869)-2 R&R connected. |
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People v. Hall
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-1850 Foreign Miners Tax-immigrants had less ability
-600+state laws to restrict progress of Chinese -Supremee Court-standing of Chinese in court for witness -can’t testify Chinese against whites -can’t testify against Chinese if chinese |
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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-1882. Sen John P. Janes-love liberty, but Chinese are barbarians and a lower-order of people.
-231-37. (landslide) -10 year policy -renewed to 1904 -not abolished till WWII. |
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Frederick Douglass
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-advocate and public speaker about freedom
-support Asians and their rights. |
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Angel Island
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-way in which people restricted when coming through
-detention facility-held to go back, or due when paper came through -interrogated |
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Gentleman’s Agreement
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-Teddy Roosevelt
-don’t segreagate Japnese in schools and stuff, and will stop Japanese from coming in to US -bilateral foreign policy-Japan aggress to stop immigration of laborers -can admit tourists, returning, smart people , merchants -families allowed to come -loophole:proff that married-“picture brides” |
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Ozawa v. U. S
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-1910 420 Japanese immigrants wer naturalized citizens
-claimed he was an assimilated American -Ozawa argument: “white person” as interepreted by court = person w/o negro blood -Japanese are “free.” They are “white persons” speaking an Aryan tongue and having Caucasian root stocks, superior class, fit for citizenship -general arugment: 1790 men wnted to give citizen ship to people they new were worthy (white men),-if ur white u can have it, if u are not commonly called white, you can’t have citizenship -Supreme court ruling: cant base on color of skin since white people have different colors too. However, when referring to “white person” really refers to person known as Cacuasian race. |
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Thind v. U. S
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thind’s arguemtn: people in India belong to Aryan race b/c speaks Aryan language. Indians regard aboriginal Indian Mongloid in same manner as American regards the negro.
-Supreme Court: just b/c u are from a line of descent from Cacuasian ancestor doesn’t work. The term is used very loosely b/c in literature it includes hindu, Polynesians, etc. Courts don’t use “Caucasian” they use “free white persons”. This works b/c white people can assimilate together and people of “readily distinguishable” characteristics cannot. |
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Alien Land Laws
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-cali 1913 and 1920. aliens ineligible to be citizenship-can’t own land.
-1910-420 Japan naturalized immigrants. -free white person-can be a citizen |
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1924 Immigration Act
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-seeks to preserve “native stock” of America
-based on “National Origins” quotas -only <150 Japan allowed in -total exclusion of “aliens ineligible for citenzhip”-no Asians -new creation of the “illegal alien”-creation of the Border Patro, promot deportation -Deterioration of US-Japan Relations. -Japan has “National Humiliation Day”-Americans are not our friends -Americans don’t’ want us. -if you marry an immigrant, you will lose your own citizenship |
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Gurdit Singh
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piloted ship full of indians (verterans of British army, had right to setlle anywhere in British empire).
-went o canda, but forced them to leave. -why risk lives for British empire if no rights |
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shijkh mighrants are from
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Hats (warrior/farmer) cast. some were untouchables.
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Ghadar party in SF
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to give India freedom; many went back to India so can fight for India's independence.
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Dalip Singh Saund
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phd. Berkeley; won congres seat.
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emilo aguinaldo
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Biak-na-Batu Truce--broker for indep. mvmt. ; cut a adea, 900,000 pesos and go to HK and stop rebellion
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pensionados
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children of Filipino elite
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Tydings-McDuffie Act
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-promised "independence" to Phiilppiones oni 10 years
-restricted immigration to quota of 50 |
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1935 Repatriotion Act
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us paid Filipions for one-way ticket back to Phillipines, only 2200 went. no more speical status, must go through immigration quotas.
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1946 Rescission Act
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Filipions can't be in military, no benefits
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1941 Black Labor Leader
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A Philip Randolph-march on Washignton , protest segreagation in jobs and military; deal: FDR ban discirmination in defense industries
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1943 Immigration and Naturalization rihghts
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China, india, and Philippine; Korea and Japan no citizenship
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kibei
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most dangerous element , born in America, raise din Japan
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Tule-Lake
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"no-nos" repatriate-go back to old country; expatriate-renounce old country
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442 Regiment (all Nisei)
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fought in atlantic theater, most decorated.
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Truman Doctrine
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if communism threatens, US should intervene. over throw "non-friendly " gov't-Iran, Guatemala, Chile; support "friendly" dictatorships;
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No Gun Ri
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Korean war, kill civilians, b/c they could be N. Korean soldiers
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domino theory
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one country go communist, than neighboring countries go communist.
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