Social Impacts: Foreign Immigration
				• People from all over the world came for the gold o Chinese, Chileans, Peruvians, Mexicans, Irish, Germans, French, Turks, East Indians, Malays, Kanakas and South Sea Islanders • Little resentment initially, when gold and land were available in large numbers • Resentment towards foreigners heightened as gold became less abundant • Civilian legislature came to be dominated by protectionist/nativist interests • Many foreigners left, but others stayed and took mining and traditional jobs • California became the most ethnically diverse culture in the world
	MEXICANS:
					• Many came to work in the mines after the Mexican War generally posed a detriment to their wealth and status. • Unprecedented xenophobia towards local Mexicans • 1850: many Mexicans came from Sonora to Calaveras and Tuolumne counties to stake their claims and mine, but after a while some racist white miners and eastern politicians launched campaign to force them out • Animosity because Mexican War had just ended and some Americans didn’t like that the people they defeated were making it rich on their land • Tensions between some whites and some Mexicans grew into the 1850s
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