US History › Section I · The West and big business › Topic I.4
Chinese immigrants and Hispanic citizens in the West
Chinese immigrants helped build the West, and Mexican Americans had lived there for generations, yet both groups faced laws, courts and mobs that pushed them to the margins. Both also organised, went to court and fought back.
In this topic
- Two groups on a crowded frontier
- Travelling to Gold Mountain
- The work Chinese immigrants did
- Laws aimed at the Chinese
- "The Chinese must go!"
- The Chinese Exclusion Act
- Worked example: Yick Wo v. Hopkins
- Hispanic citizens after 1848
- Worked example: how Californios lost their land
- Resistance in Texas and New Mexico
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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