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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed and the Mexican American War ends. California, along with all of what was northern Mexico, about half of the country, is ceded to the United States (February 2)

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September 9, 1850, California gains statehood. The first U.S. census taken after statehood shows two Chinese house servants listed as residents of Los Angeles: Ah Fou and Ah Luce.

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October 24, 1871, After the death of police officer Jesus Bilderrain, and rancher Robert Thompson during a gunfight between two Chinese factions, a mob of 500 people descended onto the Coronel Building in Chinatown. Throughout the evening multiple innocent Chinese citizens were beaten, lynched, and killed. Around 18 Chinese people were killed during the incident, and it is considered one of the largest racially motivated lynchings in American history. The Chinese community was victim to racial stereotyping at the hands of the media, and lawmakers leading to strained relationships with people outside of the community.

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The construction of Union Station led to the displacement of a significant amount of Chinese and Chinese Americans from Old Chinatown, which was mostly decimated in order to develop Los Angeles' train system. This was only further exacerbated in the 1940s-1950s, which saw the remaining sections of Old Chinatown demolished to create the 101 freeway.

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Peter Soo Hoo, an engineer for the Department of Water and Power, came to an agreement with Herbet Lapham, a white Sante Fe railroad agent, that allowed Chinese people to purchase land for 75 cents per square foot and as a result paved the future for the development of New Chinatown in 1938.

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June 1938, New Chinatown debuts with the help of the alliance between Peter Soo Hoo and Herbert Lapham. Additionally, the initial group of founders made up of 28 restaurant and shop owners.

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The cause of the freeway system is transportation. However, the effect would be the destruction of property as well as the development of suburbs. An example of this would be the I-101, the Hollywood Freeway. It was the first freeway which isolated Chinatown to the rest of Downtown Los Angeles.

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This act allowed people from Asia to bring new languages, food and essentially culture to America. Additionally they brought temples and institutions to further diversify America.

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This bank could have been found in China. In 1973, East-West Bank opened in L.A. in order to serve Chinese-Americans. The bank was able to offer financial help in a time when banks were not helping Chinese-Americans. Part of the bank's founding mission was to be able to lower the cost of credit or borrowing cost for immigrant communities while serving the environment through their consolidated lending power in the city.

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Chinatown began to shrink during the late 20th Century as many communities began to sprout in the suburbs such as Irvine, Monterey Park, and Alhambra. That is to say, as immigrants now had these growing areas, they no longer needed to first go to Chinatown as a port of entry.

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Causes:
So around the 1990s a new bohemian art scene was popping up. Artists and hipsters were attracted to this area as it was new untouched ground, which in nature is edgy and attract hipsters. On top of this, the low cost allowed artists, who don't make a lot of money to move in.

Effects:
This changed the culture of the area and brought in a lot of investment from outside, often white, investors whose businesses started to push out native "mom and pop" services who couldn't compete

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The Chinatown Business Council created the Chinatown Business Improvement District (BID) in response to community needs such as graffiti removal, sidewalk sweeping, private security etc.

BID has also gone on to establish a number of infrastructure and mixed use projects such as the Gold Line Metro Station, and Blossom Plaza . Despite apprehension from fear of displacement, many within the community recognize the benefits of economic redevelopment.