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quiz_5.docxThe US War against Mexico was supported by…
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All Americans |
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Mostly the North |
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Mostly Texas |
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Mostly the South with Texas leading |
n 1834, Lowell’s women workers struck to protest against
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wage cuts |
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unsanitary living conditions |
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poor sales |
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coerced church attendance |
Americans were attracted to Texas in the 1820s by the
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prospect of mining for precious metals |
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lure of cheap land for cotton cultivation |
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Mexican demand for American products |
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flourishing trade in bison robes and cowhides |
Texas was settled by Austin and others who also took
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mostly Chinese indentured laborers |
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Irish day laborers |
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German laborers |
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“permanent indentured laborers” |
In Solomon Northup’s article, why did Randall’s mother cry so hard?
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because her owner gave her a hundred lashes. |
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because Randall, her son was going to be sold and separated from her. |
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because Randall cussed her out. |
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because her husband had been killed. |
Women’s rights movements grew out of
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abolition movements |
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the temperance movement |
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churches |
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efforts to abolish prostitution in cities |
Prostitutes in the 1850s were generally
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Quaker women |
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immigrant women |
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Indian men |
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Native born women |
Between 1815 and 1860, southern production of cotton
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represented more than half of all American exports |
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harmed the interests of northern merchants and western farmers |
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contributed to a decline in the region’s income |
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declined in favor of tobacco |
Urban growth in many Northeast cities brought also the
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growth of urban poverty and crime |
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growth in healthier and more comfortable living conditions |
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growth of women professionals |
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growth in slavery in the cities |
The role of the ideal woman (of the “Middling class”) during the mid-nineteenth century America was to
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be politically equal to men |
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perform tasks in the family’s struggle to get ahead. |
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pursue a rewarding and professional career |
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create a clean, tranquil and wholesome home for family life |
Who among the Cherokees owned slaves?
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Christian missionaries sent by the U.S |
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none of the above |
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mixed-blood elite adopting the lifestyle of the Southern planter culture |
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Cherokees did not own slaves |
What choice did the Ridges make that set them against John Ross?
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the Ridges took a majority of the Cherokees with them to start a new nation |
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started building an alliance with the other “civilized tribes” to fight against Georgia & the U.S |
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illegally signed a treaty accepting the US offer of a cash settlement for Cherokee territory |
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they believed in the common decency of white Americans |
Republican ideology involved
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abolition as one of the unifying factors to the party |
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becoming economically independent, or owning property, in order to vote |
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extending political votes to all immigrants and blacks |
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offering economic opportunities to the Irish |
Which of the following was NOT a new technological invention that transformed American lives during the nineteenth century?
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plough |
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cotton gin |
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sewing machine |
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telegraph |
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railroad |
When the majority of Cherokee would not leave their land after the removal deadline passed, how did the U.S. and Georgia governments respond?
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U.S. troops and state militia made sure that Cherokee children, women and the elderly were safe in their resettlement |
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Jackson attempted to mediate a compromise between Georgia and the Cherokees in order to support the Supreme Court decision |
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In 1838, the Cherokees were forced from their land and marched 850-miles that killed more than a quarter of their population |
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all of the above |
Jackson (even though he was a Tennessee planter) and the Democrats
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started the Whig party |
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attacked slavery as an institution |
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attacked the classes of “privilege” or the “aristocracy" |
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was elected directly by American citizens in the new republic |
One of the causes of the internal slave trade was
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the rising demand for sugar |
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the invention of the cotton gin, and the rising demand for cotton |
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the rising demand for rice and indigo |
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the rising demand for tobacco |
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all of the above |
The slave insurrections of Gabriel Prosser in 1800 and Denmark Vesey in 1822 were both thwarted by…
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internal betrayal by fellow slaves |
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mass executions of the leaders |
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random killing of innocent blacks |
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white discovery of the plots |
How did the state of Georgia respond after the Indian Removal Bill passed?
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sold lottery tickets of Cherokee land to white settlers |
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passed new laws declaring meetings of the Cherokee legislature and courts illegal |
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Forced missionaries who lived among the Cherokees to sign oaths of allegiance to Georgia and jailed those who refused |
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all of the above |
Which of the following is NOT true about the conditions for free Blacks in the north?
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even though slavery was outlawed, there was still racism |
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they faced the greatest competition over jobs from immigrants |
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there was no segregation in schools and churches |
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trade unions excluded Blacks |
amilton intended his plan for federal assumption of state debts to
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promote the development of agrarian or farming interests |
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strengthen ties between state and national government |
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promote the power of small states |
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increase the power of Native American nations |
American expansion west was characterized by the movement of
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mostly large families |
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all of the above |
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mostly women seeking equal rights |
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mostly single men |
n the 1820s how did the Cherokee nation rise and prosper?
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John Ross authored a new constitution with a democratically elected executive, legislative and an appointed judicial branch and declared absolute sovereignty of Cherokee lands |
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John Ross authored a new constitution with a weak National Council |
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John Ross authored a new constitution with a democratically elected executive, legislative and an appointed judicial branch and declared themselves a dependent of the United States |
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they built a strong alliance with the state of Georgia and renegotiated their borders |
Which of the following is NOT true regarding the Whiskey Rebellion?
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there was a small army sent |
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it was the first domestic event suppressed by the federal military |
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it was violent, reminiscent of the revolutionary era |
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farmers in Western Pennsylvania started it |
What happened in the Supreme Court decision Worcester v. Georgia?
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that Georgia’s actions were illegal to the concept of “all men are created equal” |
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that the Cherokee nation would be able to remain in Georgia |
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Cherokee tribal laws could not be written over by the state of Georgia |
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the Cherokee nation would receive California as their future national territory |
How did a written language revolutionize Cherokee society?
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The creation of a Cherokee newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix. |
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the translation of the Bible into Cherokee |
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family stories were written down |
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Medicine people wrote down their healing formulas |
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all of the above |
During the 1820s and 1830s, canal building projects
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increased freight rates to cover project expenses |
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fostered strong ties between the North and South |
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retarded economic growth |
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provided cheap and reliable access to distant markets and goods |
The evangelicals of the Second Great Awakening attempted to
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reform society by tackling large issues like slavery head-on |
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spread feminist as well as abolitionist ideas |
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spread the Anglican Church |
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attempted to change the individual, and not society as a whole |
Why were there new unions and hundreds of strikes in the 1820s and 30s? what did they advocate?
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shorter hours |
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higher wages |
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better working conditions |
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all of the above |
Which of Hamilton’s proposals was attacked as unconstitutional by Thomas Jefferson?
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tax on whiskey |
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creation of a national bank |
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taxes on foreign luxuries |
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federal assumption of state debts |
Proslavery advocates argued that southern black slaves…
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received better treatment than northern factory workers |
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did not need the paternal guidance of white masters |
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deserved gradual emancipation and limited economic opportunities |
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were equal to whites |
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
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proposed state nullification of unconstitutional laws |
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obstructed enforcement of federal laws |
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resulted in civil war in the 1790s |
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violated the Bill of Rights |
Urban mayhem helped bring the first …. to reform cities like Boston and New York.
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prostitutes |
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bars as voting places |
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police |
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churches |
During the 1830s, the Cherokee Indians
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laid siege to the federal capital |
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lost tribal lands as a result of their military defeat |
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lost a quarter of their national population in a forced removal to Oklahoma |
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defied a Supreme Court ruling in their attempt to avoid deportation |
During the American Revolution, the Cherokees chose the side of
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the British |
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the Americans |
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their own side |
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the non-aligned |
The Missouri Compromise Line allowed for
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no new slave states to enter the union |
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slavery only south of the Missouri line |
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the equal number of slaves in each new state entering the union |
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slavery only north of the Missouri line |
What was President Andrew Jackson’s first priority once he came to office?
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peaceful negotiations between Indians and white settlers |
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christianization of Indians |
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Indian removal from lands that white settlers wanted |
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the creation of a strong national bank |
Outworkers were
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the most vehement abolitionists |
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Freed Black women who worked as domestic servants in the North |
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women who worked from home |
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Freed Black men who worked as day laborers |
For southern white women, the “sorest spot” of slavery was the
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double standard of plantation sexuality |
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excessive cruelty of the overseers |
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obligation to feed, clothe, and nurse additional children |
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social isolation and loneliness |
African American slaves in the south resisted their slavery condition in which of the following ways?
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running away |
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theft & arson |
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pretending to be ill |
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revolts |
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all of the above |
Which of the following played a major role in the economic and social transformation of mid-nineteenth century America?
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improved transportation |
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immigration |
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geographical expansion |
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new inventions |
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all of the above |
Women workers at the Lowell mills
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routinely burned down factories |
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occupied operative as well as managerial positions |
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lived in closely supervised company boardinghouses |
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seldom formed close ties with one another |
In Norman Asing’s 1852 letter to California Governor John Bigler, he states that he is
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not like other Chinese immigrants, as he is better educated than they are. |
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loose with his money, spending it on taverns and gambling houses like the other Chinese. |
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discriminated against like African Americans. |
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a naturalized citizen of the United States, from Charleston, South Carolina |
