American History Plain Indians

2. Up to 1869, in what two fields did the greatest number of chinese immigrants work?

gold mining

transcontinental railroad

3. How did employment tendencies, residence patterns and and social relationships change in the chinese community later in the nineteenth century?

Changed when they began to make communities called chinatowns

4. Why was the anglo-american european hostility toward the chinese so high in ca? What actions resulted from this hostility? How did chinese americans respond?

differences between demographic groups,color of skin, seen as barbaric(foot binding)

given most dangerous jobs

responded by isolating themselves in close communities and they argued that they were better than the people the whites associated them with (indians, african americans)

5. What factors lead the massive increase in Anglo-european settlement of the far west after the civil war?

People came looking for gold and silver, even oppurtunity, great pastures and farming possibilities

6. What was the vision of the Homestead act? How was this vision flowed? What changed were made to try and remedy weaknesses of the act?

Meant for people to settle in western territories, 160 acres for small fee, occupied and improved land for 5 years

thought land would be enough to sustain a farm family (rising costs to run a farm), made calculations based on Eastern experiences which were different circumstances, many abandoned before 5 years

7. What was the typical pattern of development and decline in the western mining company?

Prospectors came to dig surface deposits, big eastern businesses bought out prospectors to use heavier machinery.

8. What was life like for the men and women who lived in the mining regions?

Prostitution, bad working conditions, more men than women, women worked sometimes

9. What were the responses made