1. Life on the Mainland The Chinese Experience

2. Gold Rush

3. 1850s Governor John Bigler

4. Gold Rush May 1852: Foreign Miners’ License Tax

5. Gold Rush 1855 Chinese Immigration Act 1862 An Act to Protect Free White Labor Against Competition with Chinese Coolie Labor, and to Discourage the Immigration of the Chinese into the State of California

6. Central Pacific Railroad

8. Leland Stanford

9. Central Pacific Railroad Winter 1866

10. Central Pacific Railroad 1890 at Promontory Point, Utah

11. Agriculture Ah Bing Lue Gim Gon

12. Post Civil War Chinese Tenant farmers

13. Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association

14. Legal Actions leading to Exclusion 1855 Chan Yong 1862 Ling Sing V. Washburn

15. Legal Actions leading to Exclusion 1868 Burlingame Treaty

16. Legal Actions leading to Exclusion 1870 Civil Rights Act

17. Chinese Women

18. 1875 Page Law 1.) Decreased population 2.) Miscegenation 3.) Gambling 4.) Brothels 5.) Opium Dens 6.) Chinese Stores

19. Railroad to the East Brought in as strike workers against unions

20. 1880 California Definitions Whites could not marry Negros, Mulattos, or Mongolians

21. 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act

22. Entrepreneurship & Chinatowns

27. Joe Shoong- First National Dollar Store

28. Entrepreneurship & Chinatowns Bachelor Quarters Unsanitary Conditions

29. Pre- Earthquake San Francisco Chinatown

30. Entrepreneurship & Chinatowns: The Great San Francisco Earthquake April 18, 1906

31. Entrepreneurship & Chinatowns

34. Tongs Top: On Leong and Hip Sing Tongs Bottom: Pui Tak Center/ On Leong Tong Building here in Chcago Huiguans

35. Traditions from Home Chinese New Year, Qing Ming, Moon Festival Brought their gods

36. Another Wave of Immigration 1924 National Origins Act Paper Sons Angel Island