In 1877 anti Chinese riots occurred in San Francisco. ... As one would expect from a publication of such stature, San Francisco Chronicle reported on the Chinese in America. ... Since the major audience of a newspaper like San Francisco Chronicle would most likely be educated middle and upper class white. ... Even more significant than the article was the editorial in which the editors of San Francisco Chronicle commented extensively on the Chinese. ... In sum, San Francisco Chronicle is an important primary source about Chinese living in America during the 19th- century. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They lived in San Francisco, Sacramento, Marysville and Los Angles as well as in the rural areas also. ... Chinese women who came to America in these days, most of them unwilling became prostitutes (Prostitution: San Francisco Chinatown,) it gave the birth to new business. ...

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We sailed for 19 days over the Pacific ocean and we landed in San Francisco, we were then transfered from the U.S.S Hoover onto a small ferry that would send us to Angel Island. ... My father was waiting for us when we got off from the ferry in San Francisco. ...

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The events which followed James W Marshall's discovery of gold in Coloma, California during the year of 1848 were important not only because of the fact that it generated the expatriation of approximately 300,000 people (who were commonly referred to as the 49er's to signify their arrival during 1849) to the state of California but also made San Francisco grow from a small settlement of around 200 people to a boomtown of about 36000 people by 1852 and the immigrants helped forge the modern American culture that is eminent today. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate