Timeline: Chinese Immigration

1842
    - First Opium War begins between China and Britian.

1848
    - Chinese miners begin to arrive in California because of the gold rush.

1850
    - Tax is enforced on Chinese miners with the "Foreign Miner's Tax" by California.

1852
    - End of the first Opium War with China defeated by Britain.
            - Treaty of Nanjing: China must  give up Hong Kong and open their ports.
    - An increase of natural disasters hit the country.
    - First group of 195 Chinese Contract Laborers land in Hawaii.
    - More than 20,000 Chinese enter California.

1854
    - People v. Hall concluded that the Chinese may not be able to give testimony in court against whites.

1857
    - A school for Chinese children is opened up in San Francisco.

1858
    - A law is passed in California to stop the entry of Chinese

1859
    - San Francisco excludes the Chinese in their public schools.

1862
    - Six Companies is formed.
    - "Police tax" of $2.50 is put onto every Chinese.

1865
    - Central Pacific Railroad Company begins to employ many Chinese workers who help build the first transcontinental railroad.

1867
    - A one week strike is organized by 2,000 Chinese railroad workers.

1868
    - Burlingame-Seward Treaty is signed between the United States and China to acknowledge the right of emigration of the Chinese.

1869
    - First transcontinental railroad is completed.

1870
    - A law is passed in California to ban importation of Chinese, Japanese, and Mongolian woman for prostitution.

1871
    - Anti Chinese violence in Los Angeles, CA.

1872
    - Chinese are now able to give testimony in court because of California's Civil Procedure Code.

1875
    - Page Law stops importation of Chinese, Japanese, and Mongolian prostitutes, felons, and contract laborers.

1877
    - Anti Chinese violence in Chico, CA.

1878
    - Chinese are ruled ineligible for naturalized citizenship.

1880
    - Another treaty is agreed upon by the United States and China about limiting Chinese immigration but not stopping.

1882
    - Chinese exclusion act stops the immigration of laborers for 10 years.

1884
    - Chinese begin to take action for the rights they should have
        - Joseph and Mary Tape sue for their daughter's enrollment in a public school.
        - More Chinese schools are built/

1898
    - Wong Kim Ark v. US stated that American born Chinese are citizens and may not be stripped of it.

1902
    - Chinese exclusion act extended for 10 more years.

1910
    - Angel Island opens to control Chinese immigration.

1943
    - Chinese exclusions acts are repealed by the Congress.

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