[DOC] [TLE] The First Asian Americans : Asian-Nation :: Asian American History ... [PAR] However, the first large-scale immigration of Asians into the U.S. didn't ... became 
the Chinese nickname for California), The Gold Rush was one of the pull ... labor 
was no longer needed and Whites began seeing them as an economic threat. [DOC] [TLE] History of Chinese Americans - Wikipedia [PAR] The last major immigration wave started around the 1850s. The West Coast of 
North America was being rapidly colonized during the California Gold Rush, 
while... [DOC] [TLE] Gold Rush and Anti-Chinese Race Hatred - 1849 [PAR] At the news of the gold discovery a steady immigration commenced which 
continued ... news of the gold discovery found southeastern China in poverty and 
ruin caused by ... to realize how welcome were the Chinese who first came to the 
country. ... The Alta California, a San Francisco newspaper, went so far as to say, 
The... [DOC] [TLE] A history of immigration from China to the US. - Golden Venture [PAR] The first major waves of Chinese immigrants came to the U.S. after hearing of the 
"Golden Mountain" or "Gum Saan" when California's Gold Rush began in 1848. ... 
relations between the U.S. and its important World War II Asian ally, China, and ... 
to the U.S. The Fujianese immigrants have remade the nation's Chinatowns. [DOC] [TLE] Chinese immigrants  Immigration to the United States [PAR] By the early twenty-first century, they constituted the largest Asian immigrant ... 
However, the discovery of gold in California in 1848 brought a large wave of 
Chinese. ... they proved to be effective and reliable workers, and the company 
began to .... the total U.S. population during the 1960's) of Asian Americans in the 
country. [DOC] [TLE] U.S. Immigration Before 1965 - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com [PAR] Find out more about the history of U.S. Immigration Before 1965, including ... 
waves of immigration during the colonial era, the first part of the 19th century ... 
immigrants, and today, the majority of the country's immigrants hail from Asia and 
Latin America. ... Lured by news of the California gold rush, some 25,000 
Chinese had... [DOC] [TLE] Chinese Immigration to the United States - For Teachers (Library of ... [PAR] After the Civil War, immigrants again began to stream to the United States. ... 
million immigrants arrived--more foreign-born people than had come to the 
country in the ... Even so, a relatively large group of Chinese immigrated to the 
United States ... At first, they were attracted to North America by the gold rush in 
California. [DOC] [TLE] Open Collections Program: Immigration to the US, California Gold ... [PAR] The great California gold rush began on January 24, 1848, when James W. 
Marshall ... The large influx of "'49ers," as the gold prospectors were known, 
caused ... The first entailed a six-month sea voyage from New York around the tip 
of South... [DOC] [TLE] The Chinese Experience in 19th Century America [PAR] Chinese immigrants had come to San Francisco as early as 1838, but large 
numbers of Chinese only began to come in 1850 for the same reason many 
Americans were flocking to California - the 1849 Gold Rush. ... Some Americans 
noted the hypocrisy of the nation's treatment of immigrant groups, Native 
Americans, and... [DOC] [TLE] Immigration Timeline - The Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island [PAR] Most scientists believe that human beings first came to America over the ... Word 
of the California Gold Rush had spread around the world, drawing immigrants 
from ... Chinese immigrants began to arrive in the 1850's, entering through San 
Francisco. ... The experience for Asian immigrants in this period was quite 
different. [DOC] [TLE] An Historic Overview of Latino Immigration and the Demographic ... [PAR] Immigration from Latin Americaand the attendant growth of the nation's ... influx 
of Latino immigrants to the U.S. occurred during the California Gold Rush, or just 
... and as the supply of labor from Asian nations was dramatically reduced by a ... 
use of large numbers of immigrant workers in the

Question: The California Gold Rush started the first big wave of immigration from this Asian nation
Answer: China