When the California gold rush began on 1848; many immigrants move to California from elsewhere in United State and from other countries. These immigrants have different race and ethnicity like Irish, Germs, Chinese, and Latinos. Chinese and Mexican were hard and cheap workers that employers liked that they work for them. Nevertheless many white immigrants look for Chinese and Mexicans like a threat in economics and racism aspect. Whites immigrants demanding that Chinese and Mexicans need to pay a special taxes to be able to work at miners; California responding with “Foreign Miners’ Tax”. The tax was look for a tariff when somebody moved to the United States. The tax has an invective of twenty dollars in 1850 (five hundred dollars in 2008)
