After the Treaty of Shimonoseki, many countries came to carve up China. Why didn’t the United States come? What happened to the United States during this period?

At that time, the United States was vast and sparsely populated, with a large number of places waiting to be developed and various infrastructures needed to be built. In order to support these, not only immigrants came from Europe, but also human traffickers came from all over the world. Black Africans were taken there during that period. In China, in the late Qing Dynasty, many people were tricked into going to San Francisco and sold to build railroads and highways.