In the late 1800s, the Transcontinental Railroad was constructed and that transformed the United States in many ways. This railroad helped expand the United States out to the west that could sew the country together and be connected in some sort of way. The Transcontinental Railroad impacted the United States economically by populating new areas for agriculture and mining, taxing railway shipping, and by importing and exporting. To start off with, a reason for an economic impact is the way the railroad helped populate new land that can open for mining, agriculture, and retail. Due to being able to mine, farm, and sell more helps the country expand in valuable resources found in the country, while also being able to sell food and clothes the
Based on Lee Chews experiences Chinese made the decision to move to the United States in the late 1800's because Chinese were working labors jobs in their country and they wanted to become something better like a merchants and become wealthy. Chinese people taught by going to America they were going to become rich because they saw this man from the village were Lee lived left to America poor and came back rich. this gave an impression to Chinese people by going to America they could have a better life. The occupations that Chinese people were getting into in America was the laundry business because they were few opportunities. once the Chinese people arrived they experience other people being jealous of them because they are faithful and
Over two-thirds of the workers were Chinese Americans. Working conditions were hard and dangerous, and they risked a lot by performing the task of laying the tracks, making tunnels in mountains, etc. If we hadn't had the help of the Chinese Americans, we might not have had this advancement for many more years. The effect that the Transcontinental Railroad had on society as a whole could be considered successful or the opposite.
Asian Americans were using the judicial system to fight for their rights and have the same rights as a citizen. For example, a very successful case it was the “Yick Wo v. Hopkins” Yick Wo was not an American Citizen he goes to the Supreme Court and argues that the laundry ordinance violated his rights under the fourteen amendments, his right to due process and equal protection, furthermore Yick Wo won the case. This was the first case that the Supreme Court help a Chinese person who was fighting for his rights and did not ruled against him for not being a citizen. A case that was not successful was “United States v. Ju Toy” he was a Chinese man and was born in the U.S Toy went to China and returned to San Francisco but on his return he was
Transcontinental Railroad Tera Richardson, 4336787 History 102 B008 Sum 17 Professor Traci Sumner American Military University July 22, 2017 Abstract The transcontinental railroad was one of the biggest advocates for the industrial economy and westward expansion. The railroads could transfer goods and people across the country with ease, and quickly. While some bad came from this miraculous progression, such as the panic of 1873 and a yellow fever epidemic, the good outweighed the bad as it enabled the United States to fulfill its Manifest Destiny through westward expansion.
Author Jason Newman writes on the history of Asian Americans in the United States in his essay, appropriately titled, “Asian American in U.S. History”. The essay describes the treatment of Asian Americans in the United States, along with the legislation passed against them. To open his essay, Newman writes, “Many Asian Americans have struggled against recurrent stereotypes that cast them as permanent outsiders despite their long history in the United States.” Afterward, Newman describes the early immigration of Asian Americans to the U.S. Specifically, he uses Chinese Americans to illustrate the negative reaction Americans had towards Asian immigration, listing the many laws passed to bar Chinese immigration into America.
Chinese immigrants were hired to build the transcontinental railroad at wages that were about one-third less than would have been paid to white workers (page 72). Asian Americans didn’t understand why they wasn’t granted citizenship under the Naturalization Act, like the Native Americans. Naturalization Act of 1790, was to grant everyone citizenship.
In 1694, Thomas Savery invented what would revolutionize the united states indefinitely, he called it the steam engine. This invention lead to the first steam engine locomotive which many would say was a beneficial turning point in the industrialization of america’s economy,allowing the steam engine to be used on the railways. Although the railroads did impact the United States and certain groups in positive ways,there were also negative effects that occurred. During this time period, there were many chinese immigrants that entered the United States who made up most of the workers that built the tracks.
China recently got out of the very long and bloody Opium wars which had left most of southeastern China in ruins and poverty-stricken, when they got to the United States they applied for jobs at mining and railroad companies. This impacted the United States geographically because the Chinese helped terraform the land to help construct railroads and also due to large amounts of gold mining. This evidence validates that Chinese imagination impacted the United States geographically. A second source states that the geographical impact Chinese immigration had on the United States was how it helped with the growth of people in the western United States, Chinese immigration helped with growth in the United States because when Chinese immigrants came to the United States in droves many found themselves working for railroad companies, these companies built the Transcontinental railroad which connected the west coast to the east coast allowing more people to go west more easily and
Si Ting Chen Asia America and Empire April 5th, 2024 The Societal Impact of the Model Minority Myth The model minority myth that is attached to the Asian American image is something that would have been thought of as impossible in the early age of Asian immigration to America. However, as this model myth persists among generations of Asian Americans and the society that surrounds them, it creates a tremendous societal impact and pressure on them that shapes the way that individuals live as a part of the Asian American whole. The original intent of the model minority myth may have been created out of necessity and had been used to survive for that original generation. However, the world has moved on, and so has the myth's place since the Instead of being used to help Asian Americans, the myth
In between California and the rest of the country were the Great Plains which were not heavily populated so there was no easy way of trade and transportation to the growing western territories. A group of men called the “Big Four” which consisted of Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, decided what the country needed was a transcontinental railroad. Their company, The Central Pacific Railroad company would hire 15,000 Chinese men to work on constructing the railroad due to the fact that they would work for less than the average American. This made transportation cheaper and quicker than ever
Currently, the population of people with Chinese descent in America reaches to 1.2%, which accounts to an estimated 3.8 million people. This all started with the Gold Rush, which let two completely opposite cultures that had never interacted before encounter their differences. The religious and cultural exchanges between the American and Chinese societies occurred with many difficulties of acceptance and tolerance, resulting in the diverse American society of present day. After differences between the two cultures were overcome, the Gold Rush opened the doors of exploration for many generations of not only Chinese immigrants, but all Asian ethnicities to follow. Many immigrants would later follow in their footsteps to find what America has to offer them.
The Legend, The Martyr, and The Sick Comedian If laughter is the best medicine, then why was Lenny Bruce known as a “sick comedian”? The answer is he was sick, sick of the hypocrisy, censorship and injustice of society. Bruce was a comedian known for his shocking, boundary breaking social commentary infused comedy in the 50’s - 60’s. His comedy was more than just comedy or a career, his comedy represented a turning point in the social climate of America, pushing through the traditional masses and their standards with his open confrontational comedy. In the journey to suppress and censor him, Lenny Bruce became a legend who forever made an impact on society.
In just a single lifetime, most of the scars of the past are hardly felt today, with Asians forming one of the integral threads of American society today. But in order to understand how our rights and privileges came to be, we first
Job and Location With America having rapid industrialization made it a destination for the Chinese immigrants. The Chinese immigrant at first had settled mostly in the west in california. This group was soon pushed out and settled in the larger cities which consist of San Francisco, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Seattle. As the Americans became more adapted to the Chinese, they had started to move away from the larger cities (Immigration Library).
