The manifest destination during the nineteenth century was the beliefs of an expansion of the American power. The acquisition of other national territories or lands brought some several factors involving the expansion of economic growth that would lead the United States to become one of the most powerful countries in the world. One of the most significant events during the period of manifest destination was when California, which once it had been a territory of Mexico, became a state of the United States. This event was the turning point that brought a huge number of people from different states into California for seeking “Gold” as their new future lives. According to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, it was an agreement between two countries
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These migrants were the first wave of Chinese men. They decided to live apart from American camps and settled their own camps, which were named Chinatowns. These people did not only success in “extracting gold from the hillsides added to the intense economic competition of the gold rush” but they also developed and expressed their culture, which included appearances and customs (Gillon, pg.484). When the number of Chinese migrants, who came to San Francisco, were over twenty thousand in 1852, it resulted in increasing the national conflicts, which was racism, and specifying them as a foreign …show more content…
These seekers had experienced a lack of quality of life and other problems, such as venereal disease, drug and alcohol abuse, and violence—“Claim jumpers,” which identified “men who robbed successful miners of their gold or stole their claim papers” (Gillon, pg.484). Moreover, racism was also one of the most significant problems that seekers had experienced. As mentioned to the foreign migrants, there were the undercurrents of tension among different races, for instance, “blatant forms of racism against the growing Chinese population” (Gillon, pg.485). Also, there was a conflict between the local and nonlocal populations in which these new people seized the local people’s lands and occupations for making their new future in California. Therefore, the discovery of Gold in California during the period of manifest destination had an impact on the country economy directly because it brought people from different states and other foreign migrants into California. That was the great way to raise up state and national incomes and also the country economic growth. However, these benefits must be exchanged with some problems such as the conflicts between American citizens and other foreigners, discrimination, and some kinds of
These migrants were the first wave of Chinese men. They decided to live apart from American camps and settled their own camps, which were named Chinatowns. These people did not only success in “extracting gold from the hillsides added to the intense economic competition of the gold rush” but they also developed and expressed their culture, which included appearances and customs (Gillon, pg.484). When the number of Chinese migrants, who came to San Francisco, were over twenty thousand in 1852, it resulted in increasing the national conflicts, which was racism, and specifying them as a foreign …show more content…
These seekers had experienced a lack of quality of life and other problems, such as venereal disease, drug and alcohol abuse, and violence—“Claim jumpers,” which identified “men who robbed successful miners of their gold or stole their claim papers” (Gillon, pg.484). Moreover, racism was also one of the most significant problems that seekers had experienced. As mentioned to the foreign migrants, there were the undercurrents of tension among different races, for instance, “blatant forms of racism against the growing Chinese population” (Gillon, pg.485). Also, there was a conflict between the local and nonlocal populations in which these new people seized the local people’s lands and occupations for making their new future in California. Therefore, the discovery of Gold in California during the period of manifest destination had an impact on the country economy directly because it brought people from different states and other foreign migrants into California. That was the great way to raise up state and national incomes and also the country economic growth. However, these benefits must be exchanged with some problems such as the conflicts between American citizens and other foreigners, discrimination, and some kinds of