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Politics and the Gilded Age

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Class Conflicts <strong>and</strong> EthnicClashes• Conflict between Irish <strong>and</strong> Chineseespecially strong in California• Chinese were mostly poor, uneducated,single males; about 75,000 in 1880 in US– Came to US to work in gold fields or ontranscontinental railroads• About 1/2 returned to China after work ended

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