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Born.
I am Li Zhi Shuo. I was born in a small village near the ocean. Life was very hard there. Fishing was rough, I was very little and my father forced me to work. Our village was robbed and burnt down. This inncident killed my mother, brothers, and sisters. With no other family except for my father we decied to head to America to try our luck with the land of oppritunity we hoped for a better life. -
Califorina Gold rush
Once I got off the boat, and became a U.S citizen the gold rush happened. Instead of mining the gold I was the Merchant of a town with my father. I made a ton of money in gold currency. at 11 years old I thought my life was set. Sadly, I was robbed by greedy miners. I lost all my gold, and supply. -
building the Transcontinental Railroad
http://www.history.com/topics/transcontinental-railroadOnce We lost all our gold my father forced me to mine with him. He soon died from a cave in, luckily I still lived. I quit mining, and then lived in the streets. I soon heard about the Transcontinental railroad. I started in the west. I worked for Central Pacific Railroad. Income was decent, which help support me. Finally in 1869 we completed the railroad -
Chinese exclusion act.
I went back to China in 1881, thinking eveything will be fine. When I went there I found my cousin, and his horrible living conditions. So I took him with me when sailing home to America in 1883. When we got back people thought I was an immigrant. I was held for six months, then I finally was able to go after goverment took a closer look. at my files. -
San Fransico earthquake
http://www.funtrivia.com/en/subtopics/1906-San-Francisco-Earthquake-253303.htmlAt an old age I was lucky to be alive. The earthquake caused great destruction, everyone fled for safety. Then a fire started, luckily I was out of the danger area. It took 74 hours to put all the fires down. Once everything was clam people would blow up buildings that were basically destoryed. one of the buildings was my house.