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 * What is your general belief statement about cause(s) of the conflict?**

My general belief is that many chinese came to America seeking new jobs and when there was too many chinese immagrants, the whites thought they were trying to take over the city/town and country so, many of the chinese were driven out of their homes and killed.

**What is the relevant background information (i.e. who, what, when, where)?**

Chinese men by the thousands went to the United States in the 1850s and 1860s to seek gold during the gold rushes and to build sections of the transcontinental railroads. But the gold ran out, the transcontinental railroads were completed, and the long depression of the 1870s created massive unemployment, with Chinese people at the bottom of the economic ladder. Mobs drove the Chinese out of Seattle and Tacoma and anti-Chinese riots wracked Los Angeles and San Francisco. Through the ensuing decades, fear of Chinese immigrant "hordes" fueled racist immigration laws.On November 3, “a mob in raincoats,” in the words of Murray Morgan, marched to the Chinese section of town. They broke open doors and ordered people out. The Chinese were frightened, some were crying. The Chinese gathered their possessions. The mob arrived at How Lung’s store and kicked the door to the ground. They pulled people, including his wife, out of the building. They pointed pistols at the chinese, but did not shoot their weapons at the chinese. Other houses, men broke open doors, smashed windows, and stole possessions as they rounded the people up. They marched them through the mud to waiting delivery wagons. Around 3:00 in the morning a freight train stopped at the station and took on all those who could not afford tickets. the whites only excepted a very few house servants, the Chinese in Seattle, and Tacoma were gone. The mobs burned their houses to rubble. They lost everything but their lives, and they never returned.

**What were 3 factors that helped cause the conflict (politics, economics, geography, history)?**

Immagrants were working every day to feed the factories and the growing economy and it might have made them get stressed and angry. Most of it came from decades of discrimination of the chinese, and initiated decades of the Chinese Exclusion**.** Many chinese people didnt have much rights in America. Most of the causes were from the whites. Mobs broke many chinese people's homes and stores and pulled chinese people out and many stole their possesions.
 * Explain why one factor is more important than the others.**

**How could the conflict have been avoided?**

If the whites didn't look down on the immagrants and being mean to the immagrants.If the whites weren't raisis to the Immagrants and chineses. If the whites would have given the immagrants more rights.Stoping the chinese killing and not driving out many of the chinese. Destroying the chinese's homes, stores, and every thing they possesed.


 * What sources of information have you used? **