WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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had a strong work ethic
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would work for less wages
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would work dangerous jobs
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were unreliable workers
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Detailed explanation-1: -They easily found employment as farmhands, gardeners, domestics, laundry workers, and most famously, railroad workers. In the 1860s, it was the Chinese Americans who built the Transcontinental Railroad.
Detailed explanation-2: -Many of them came from countries that had had few people move to the United States in the past. At that time, war, famine, and a poor economy in southeastern China caused many Chinese men to come to America. Most of them hoped to find great wealth and return to China.
Detailed explanation-3: -Even as they struggled to find work, Chinese immigrants were also fighting for their lives. During their first few decades in the United States, they endured an epidemic of violent racist attacks, a campaign of persecution and murder that today seems shocking.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the 1870s, the worsening economic depression only increased hostility towards the Chinese. Chinese immigrants were blamed for lowering wages and increasing the unemployment rate. In 1882, a landmark act was passed by Congress-the Chinese Exclusion Act.