Chinese immigrants first flocked to the United States in the 1850s, eager to escape the economic chaos in China and to try their luck at the California gold rush.
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A lapsed Catholic, also known as a backsliding Catholic, is a baptized Catholic who is non-practicing. Such a person may still identify as a Catholic, and remains a Catholic according to canon law.
Renaissance thinkers encouraged individuals to question how things work, and scientists began to test these ideas with experiments during the Scientific Revolution.
