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    The letter describes the challenges faced by Chinese immigrants working on the railroads and in farms, including low pay, racism, and having to live segregated in Chinatowns. It discusses the hard work they do and missing their families in China. The letter expresses hope that they can one day thrive and bring their families to live with them in the United States.

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    The letter describes the challenges faced by Chinese immigrants working on the railroads and in farms, including low pay, racism, and having to live segregated in Chinatowns. It discusses the hard work they do and missing their families in China. The letter expresses hope that they can one day thrive and bring their families to live with them in the United States.

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    Student Name: Svenja Peschel-Taplin

    Letters Home from Western Settlers


    Choose two of the groups that were featured in this lesson (missionaries, Mormons, Chinese
    immigrants, and forty-niners) and think about what their individual experiences may have been like as
    they forged new lives on the western frontier. Put yourself in their shoes as you review what you have
    learned about this era. Then write a "letter home" from each of these two people from their unique
    points of view.

    Directions: Use the questions below to help you brainstorm ideas for each letter about a member of a
    specific group of settlers.

    Letter 1

    1. What details of their life out west would they would to share with folks back home?
    We tell them about our journeys and the jobs we are able to do even for little pay.

    2. What kind of work are they doing?


    We do a lot of fishing, ariculture, and railroad labor. A lot of us are young men who
    have been taken away from home, homes that had wives and children.

    3. What do they miss about their birthplace?


    We miss our families the most, we had to leave everyone.

    4. What challenges do they face in their new lives?


    The worst is racism, most of us have to live in Chinatown without a choice. The
    Americns find us intimidating for working low paying jobs, and we have to pay our
    employers for the cost of traveling to the United States.

    5. What interesting events have they witnessed since leaving home?


    Some of us have become entrepreneurs in the retail and service industry, then in
    1880 the population grew to 300,000 of Chinese workers in California.

    6. What are their hopes and dreams for the future?


    Our dream is to thrive like everyone else, we want to bring our families here and grow
    a life for the future.
    Student Name: Svenja Peschel-Taplin

    Letters Home from Western Settlers


    Letter 2

    1. What details of their life out west would they would to share with folks back home?
    The Gold Rush and how we are able to help California become a state.

    2. What kind of work are they doing?


    We mine for gold, not only that we discovered over $200 million worth of gold and
    were able to esatblish an economie.

    3. What do they miss about their birthplace?


    Some of us are American, or German, Chinese, and African AMerican. Us not from
    California miss out families.

    4. What challenges do they face in their new lives?


    The Wild West was a dangerous time, with lots of fighting, drinking, and gabmling.
    Due to these towns being created it was difficult for implamenting laws.

    5. What interesting events have they witnessed since leaving home?


    The Gold Rush, helping California become a state faster, and opening up various
    jobs.

    6. What are their hopes and dreams for the future?


    We want to continue mining and make more and more jobs for people, but not only
    that but help out families. We hoped for wealth and a good life and we got that.

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