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| 1850: California imposes Foreign Miner's License
Tax 1852: 11,794 Chinese live in California (only 7 are women) 1854: California Supreme Court upholds ban against testimony from Chinese witnesses 1860s: Over 30,000 Chinese enter the U.S; nearly all are men who work as laborers 1871: Anti-Chinese riots in Los Angeles, part of larger pattern of violence 1882: Exclusion Act prohibits Chinese laborers from entering U.S. |
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