Wyoming Territory: Johnson County War, Rock Springs Massacre, Hayden Geological Survey of 1871, Expeditions and the Protection of Yellows
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ISBN10: 1233056786
ISBN13: 9781233056781
Publisher: Books Llc Wiki Series
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.08 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781233056781
Publisher: Books Llc Wiki Series
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.08 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Johnson County War, Rock Springs massacre, Hayden Geological Survey of 1871, Expeditions and the protection of Yellowstone, Red Cloud's War, Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition, Cook-Folsom-Peterson Expedition, Fort Laramie National Historic Site, Ellen Watson, Treaty of Fort Laramie, Fort D.A. Russell, Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869, Fort Fetterman, Bannock War, Dull Knife Fight, Red Cloud Agency, Expedition Island, List of victims of the Rock Springs massacre, Union Pacific Coal Company, Fort Washakie, Camp Stambaugh. Excerpt: The Rock Springs massacre, also known as the Rock Springs Riot, occurred on September 2, 1885, in the present-day United States city of Rock Springs, Wyoming, in Sweetwater County. The riot, between Chinese immigrant miners and white immigrant miners, was the result of racial tensions and an ongoing labor dispute over the Union Pacific Coal Department's policy of paying Chinese miners lower wages than white miners. This policy caused the Chinese to be hired over the white miners, which further angered the white miners and contributed to the riot. Racial tensions were an even bigger factor in the massacre. When the rioting ended, at least 28 Chinese miners were dead and 15 were injured. Rioters burned 75 Chinese homes resulting in approximately US$150,000 in property damage ($3.65 million in present-day terms). Tension between whites and Chinese immigrants in the late 19th century American West was particularly high, especially in the decade preceding the violence. The massacre in Rock Springs was the violent outburst of years of anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States. The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act suspended Chinese immigration for ten years, but not before thousands of immigrants came to the American West. Most Chinese immigrants to Wyoming Territory took jobs with the railroad at...