Terms

• General Mining Act 1872
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848
• Pacific Slope
• Borderlands
• Angel Island
• Paper Sans
• Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
• Chinatown
• Alien Land Acgt, 1913
• John Main
• Social Darwinism
• Mugwumes
• Secret Ballot.

Mining Industry

• Mining Frontier brought industry to the far west, the general mining act of 1872 opened up the publicly owned lands.

Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo annexed california involving Mexicans, made them citizens.

Can take illegal squatters to court, but court was expensive.

After american victory, american prospectors looking for goal, but found a lot of other things, like zinc, lead, and coal (Az/New Mexico). Montana had copper.