Empress of China sets sail for Canton with a shipment of ginseng
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Earliest record of Chinese in the continental U.S. shows that three seamen on the ship Pallas arrived in Baltimore.
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Gold is discovered in California, sparking a gold rush by Americans, immigrant Chinese and others. Americans establish a foreign concession in Shanghai.
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Thousands of Chinese workers recruited to build the western section of the Trans-continental Railroad, which was completed in 1869, a year ahead of schedule. Anti-Chinese riots start to occur throughout the West until the turn of the century
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1965 Immigration Act, allowing large-scale “family reunification” immigration of Chinese to the U.S. for the first time
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Chinese American Vincent Chin is killed in Detroit by two white men who mistook him for Japanese and blamed him for the competition that that had taken their auto-industry jobs
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wo Chinese Americans are appointed to the Obama cabinet: Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy, and Gary Locke, Secretary of Commerce. Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. is appointed as ambassador to China