Mexican Immigration Mexican immigration has been a problem in the United States since 1850 and still is to this date. Mexican immigrants, along with Mexican American descendants, have created a unique story of U.S. immigration. Millions of people in the U.S. today identify themselves as Mexican i...
After the War with Mexico ended in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico acknowledged the 1845 annexation of Texas and ceded to the United States a huge expanse of land that included the present- day states of California, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and parts of Arizona, Colorado, and Wyoming. ... Some Asians came for the California Gold Rush that began in 1849. ... By 1870, more than 100,000 Chinese were living in California. ... Some 15 million immigrants reached the United States in the relatively brief period between 1890 and 1914, most of them from eastern and southern Europe. ...
Fueled by the news of the California Gold Rush, they arrived in America looking to strike it rich with hopes of being able to send money back to their poor rural homes, or of returning to their country in a few years with newly acquired wealth. ... A series of floods and crop failures in Southern China lead to poverty and famine among peasant farmers. ... In 1848, California struck gold at Sutter's Mill, California. ... While some worked as panhandlers searching for the elusive "Gold Mountain" of California, most moved to fill the low paid labor created by America's rapidly expanding...
Another great wave began to arrive around 1890, consisting mainly of people from southern and eastern Europe. ... Out of all those new immigrants, more than 70 percent were from the southern and eastern part of Europe. ... It wasn't until the discovery of gold in 1848 that California started to grow. ...
