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How Did Chinese Immigration Impact The Westward Expansion Of The United States?

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Chinese immigration impacted the Westward Expansion of the United States from the 1800s to the 1890s through economic, and geographically Chinese immigration Started back in the 1850s. Many Chinese people came to America. Around 64,301 were living in America. Throughout this time, American people started to exclude Chinese people from jobs, homes, etc. They were being treated very wrongly by the Americans. Americans got very fed up with the Chinese people and almost kicked them out. After 1882, most Chinese hate by Americans was gone because they made a treaty. How did the flow of Chinese immigration impact the expansion of the United States from 1800 to the 1890s with the economy, geographics and achievements? When Chinese immigrants came to the United States, they had a geographical impact on …show more content…

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

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