California Gold Rush | Gold Mountains | 5
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How Did Their Lot in the Gold Fields Change?
At the beginning when the Chinese were working in the gold fields They had it pretty much to themselves because they came so early But then as in particular white laborers or miners arrived and started being pushed out. One of the reasons is that the majority of miners who came weren't coming from New England or the middle of the country which was still barely settled. "They brought with them all of their prejudices and all of their beliefs about race You see this especially you know over time in the lead-up to the passage of the Chinese exclusion act," he says.
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