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Latin American and French Miners Protest the Foreign Miner’s Tax (with text supports)
French- and Spanish-speaking miners posted this notice around Sonora County, California in May, 1850. The month before, the California legislature had passed a Foreign Miners’ Tax that required immigrant miners to pay $20 every month for the [...]
Tags: Gold Rush, Reading Supports
Item Type: Pamphlet/Petition
Historical Era: Antebellum America (1816-1860)
Regulations of the Middlesex Company and Its Boarding Houses (with text supports)
The Lowell textile factories, and the boarding houses where they required their female workers to live, had strict rules. The women accepted these rules and even helped enforce them.
Tags: Lowell, Reading Supports
Item Type: Pamphlet/Petition
Historical Era: Antebellum America (1816-1860)