Sze Yup, and other such Chinese organizations, met Chinese newcomers to the gold rush at the docks ... By the end of the 1850s, Chinese immigrants made up one-fifth of the population of the ...

In this lesson, students learn about the California Gold Rush of 1849 through miners’ letters and art/photos, then research the role of the “invisibles”—minority groups and immigrants ...

According to the Union in Grass Valley, legends of those little guys came to gold rush country with Cornish immigrants. “In ...

The efforts were only aided by the fact that many of the region's immigrants came from Europe ... a more organized form of North Carolina gold rush, in which miners processed the land more ...

The law led many Chinese mining immigrants to head south to San Francisco ... San Francisco to open a dry goods business during the gold rush. He patented a technique for making long-lasting ...

the US welcomed immigrants; the gold rush and the construction of America’s transcontinental railways created demand for cheap labour, as did the abolition of slavery in 1863.