Chinese Immigrants Questins
As soon as news of the discovery of gold in California reached China in 1849, there was an increase in the numbers of Chinese immigrants to the west coast of the United States. They came because wars, floods and famine had made earning a livelihood difficult in China.
Why did Chinese immigrants come to California? The Chinese immigrants came to California because of the wars, floods and famine had made earning a livehood.
How do you think the Chinese heard about the discovery of gold? I thik that the Chinese heard about the gold rush because of the people that they were working for.
Chinese workers on the railroad were fed a Chinese diet including dried oysters, dried fish, sweet rice, crackers, dried bamboo, salted cabbage, Chinese sugar, dried fruits and vegetables, dried seaweed, Chinese bacon, dried mushrooms, peanut oil, tea, rice, pork, and chicken. This was a much healthier diet than the beef, beans, bread, butter and potatoes of white workers at the time. The Chinese also drank barrels of hot tea. White workers, instead, would drink cold water. Too often this water was contaminated and caused illness among the workers.
Literal Question:
What did the workers drink when they were thrrsty? Why do you think the water got comtaminated?
Figurative Question:
Why do think that the Chinese workers eat a lot more better then the white people?
Chinese workers on the railroad worked six days a week from sunrise to sundown. They were paid $1 each day. Three thousand Chinese were hired to work on the railroad.
In 1867 two thousand Chinese workers went on strike. They demanded a raise to $40 each month. The strike ended in one week, and the Chinese workers were forced to go back to work without a raise in their pay.
Literal Question:
how much many did the Chinese got pay for a day? How many days did the woke on one month? From what time to what time did they work?
Figurative Question:
why the people wanted the work done but they didn’t wanted to
