[DOC] [TLE] The History of Chinese Immigration to the U.S. [PAR] Chinese immigration can be divided into three periods: 1849-1882, ... The first 
period began shortly after the California Gold Rush and ended abruptly with the 
... First of all, they arrived in America looking to strike it rich with hopes of being to
... [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. The Chinese 
immigrants... [DOC] [TLE] History of Chinese Americans - Wikipedia [PAR] The history of Chinese Americans or the history of ethnic Chinese in the United 
States relates to the three major waves of Chinese immigration to the United 
States with the first beginning in the 19th century. Chinese immigrants in the 19th 
century worked as laborers, particularly on .... The Chinese did not, however, only 
come for the gold rush in California, but... [DOC] [TLE] Chinese immigrants  Immigration to the United States [PAR] Chinese immigrants, the primary targets of the California law, were ... of a 1790 
federal law that reserved naturalized citizenship to "white persons only. ... to be 
effective and reliable workers, and the company began to hire more Chinese. ... a 
distant third occupation for Chinese immigrants before the 1940's, although it was
... [DOC] [TLE] Gold Rush and Anti-Chinese Race Hatred - 1849 [PAR] At the beginning of the year 1849 there were in the state only fifty-four Chinamen. 
At the news of the gold discovery a steady immigration commenced which ... The 
Alta California, a San Francisco newspaper, went so far as to say, The China .... 
the whole Chinese question was up again in more violent form than ever before. [DOC] [TLE] The Beginnings of China's Emigration to America  Poeticwaves.net ... [PAR] The California Gold Rush of 1849 helped to bring about the arrival of another 
ethnic ... Before the Gold Rush, in 1842 the Chinese suffered a humiliating defeat 
to the ... Chinese immigration into the US continued during the 1850s as 
China ... the United States began experiencing its first substantial waves of 
immigrants. [DOC] [TLE] 8 Things You May Not Know About the California Gold Rush ... [PAR] Jan 24, 2013 ... Discover how the Gold Rush led to the creation of California. ... Fifty years before 
gold was discovered at Sutter's mill, the first gold rush in ... And the people just 
kept coming. ... more than 25,000 immigrants from China alone had arrived in 
America. As the amount of available gold began to dwindle, miners... [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 ... as the 31st state in 1850just two years after the United States had 
acquired it ... to acquire as much gold as possible before returning to China
hopefully much ... Upon arrival home, they would re-melt their seemingly ordinary
-looking... [DOC] [TLE] A history of immigration from China to the US. - Golden Venture [PAR] However, the Golden Venture was really only the latest dramatic episode in the 
sad ... Starting from the early 1800's, Chinese immigrants have made the arduous
, ... of the "Golden Mountain" or "Gum Saan" when California's Gold Rush began 
in 1848. ... In steamships, they arrived in San Francisco's harbor, where the first... [DOC] [TLE] The Gold Rush of 1849 - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com [PAR] Find out more about the history of The Gold Rush of 1849, including videos, 
interesting ... Just days after Marshall's discovery at Sutter's Mill, the Treaty of 
Guadalupe ... the fortunes being made in California, the first migrants to arrive 
were those from ... the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii), Mexico, Chile, Peru and 
even China. [DOC] [TLE] Calisphere: 1848-1865: Gold Rush, Statehood, and the Western ... [PAR] The arrival and departure of thousands of immigrants, the intensely ... The

Question: Chinese immigrants began to arrive in California just before this 1849 "rush"
Answer: Gold Rush