Immigration to the United States Push Factors Several push factors all five will apply Government Controlled by an emperor at this time o Qing Dynasty pronounced Ching The clan members start not liking some of the laws that the emperor is passing and they start to control the provinces all by themselves The emperor gets together an army and goes to the Canton provinces The emperor starts to raise taxes so the eldest males do not decide to pay anymore o Taipei and Boxer Rebellions The rebellion of the eldest males to the emperor overpopulation when a government does not have enough jobs or food for citizens imperialism o opium wave drug is the biggest export out of Toishan making so much money Europeans come in and try to take over Europeans fighting and Chinese fighting back same thing as what they did to Irish but instead of land it was businesses making Chinese have no jobs the European ideas of individualism start to affect the younger generations of Chinese thinking wow this is great people who actually left china kept their culture better in America than in china did better in US than in china Always making more money than you would in china Immigration to the United States Push Factors Government o Qing Dynasty pronounced Ching o Weather their crops are being The Canton Province is going to hurt o Tsunami War and Rebellion Fight against Russia and Japan at this time 20 million die at this time helps overpopulation One of the reasons why they leave Pull Factors for the Chinese 1st Gold Later Work o Gum Sann gold mountain that is what they call America o They believe that when they enter America there will be gold everywhere There is a lot of work and there are not many people who are there So they do not have to compete with anyone for jobs Stereotypes of the Californian WASPS and Chinese They are hardly any women in America when the Chinese immigrant there The people in California are white single male who has not encountered any different cultures Thousands single white WASPS go out west in search of land and gold because the U S did not own California at the time Rancher or cowboy Yosemite Sam rancher or cowboy He goes out hunting and kills the animal himself and kills his catch with the same knife He is out in the bush He has lots of facial hair a stench bloody raw animals don t attend church often there is not any churches protestant up bringing average height 5 8 muscular heifty Change with Queue a long braid behind his back of dark hair Wearing a silk rob and silk stockings with colorful silk slippers They have no facial hair because they do not grow facial hair Average height 4 8 He then looks like a women coming off the boat He does not believe in God or Jesus He goes to temple and lights incense in a very dark temple where there is a big Buddha They are eating with chopsticks and they do not eat meat beef They eat tofu and rice The Chinese Immigration to the United States Money The boat ride is three to six months and they need food and water So they need to afford it Their families have a little bit of money to come over with just enough to get by Not rich because if they were they would be in China Return Migration the Chinese are not going to stay in America They are coming over because the eldest male told them to make money and once all the push factors go away they will return to China and live their entire lives He is permanently going to stay for 30 years but the clan cannot control them so they come back every five years They then meet the person they are going to get married Make babies go back to America and make money then go back to China and want them to have a refresh of culture The eldest male does not want them to lose their culture or assimilate It is a way to keep control of them and it makes them not look good in America and un assimilatable o Bachelor society when they come to America they are not looked at as married because his wife is not with them Almost 100 men Chinese in America Numbers Location o 300 000 by 1882 o 1 10 of CA total population There numbers are good but they located in California that doesn t have much to begin with in the first placed o Ethnic enclave o Chinatown San Francisco CA Everyone is speaking mandarin Chinese food everyone is Chinese Was once called China Their jobs reinforce stereotypes They will always work for the least amount of money Cheap hard labor When they is a job available and the African American will say that they will work for a 1 they will work for 50 cents o Gold miners you have to buy land in order to mine gold Foreign Miners Tax 1852 any Chinese individual who is mining has to pay 50 they cannot buy land and just day laborers instead You get an hour wage just like everyone else 3 out of 6 a month They tax them for working We start to think that the Chinese are stealing the gold and hiding them So americans do strip searches every day to the Chinese Work Coolies hard labor White price for gold and a Chinese price for gold So it makes it hard to be a gold miner at the time o Domestics feminine Jobs They start to cook clean and make clothes for the WASPS that are there They do not live with the men This then reinforces stereotypes for the Chinese They are able to open up businesses They aren t able to open businesses if they are gone every five years They go back to china and get partners They are joint businesses o Businesses o Fishermen Fish is not eaten by most WASPS at the time This helps the Chinese to keep their culture diet They do this for each other and not do for the WASPS o Transcontinental Railroad They do not go into this in large numbers Because they are not able to do the physical work because they do not have the body types for that Fireworks are explosive WASPS did not know how to use tnt or dynamite They didn t have the skill of blowing through the mountain Lighters lighting the fuse They have to light it close to where you are About 100 feet where you are They must be skilled not to blow themselves up blow up their face or have the mountain collapse underneath them Make a lot of money but they could die They would get paid before they do their job o Migrant Farm Work They do not own any land They move from place to place where there is a need on different farms Something is always growing in California They never have to worry about …
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