History of the United States II / Unit 2 USH2 0184 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Chinese Immigration
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The idea
Barely six hundred fifty Chinese lived in the country at the end of eighteen forty-nine; more than twenty-five thousand arrived in eighteen fifty-two.
In practice
More than two hundred thousand Chinese living in the country by eighteen eighty.
Where people slip
The Yawp gives that figure; the anchor gives over three hundred thousand. By eighteen ninety, fewer than one in twenty was female.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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