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 * What is your general belief about who or what is most responsible for causing the conflict?**

The people responsible of the Chinese Exclusion were the people that were racist. Congress passed laws excluding Chinese from the American great life many seeked for. This was more of a one way battle that most Americans were against Chinese. People are responsible for passing the law excluding Chinese and they are guilty.

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

The Chinese that emigrated to America were often looked down upon by other Americans. People were racist and because of that, many Americans didn't want the Chinese around. In 1882 the Chinese Exclusion Act was enforced throughout all the USA. (Book, Washington A state of Contrasts)


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

Racsim is one of the causes of conflict. People could not ecept other types of people in America and that lead to a huge problem. Riots of large groups of people would try and push Chinese neighbors out of their homes. Some homes would even be burnt down, all because of different religion, foods, and language. They were different and others couldnt handle it so it called for thirty years of racism against the Chinese. ([])

The next reason for conflict was job opportunities. If the Chinese were there people believed that they would occupy the jobs they thought were theirs. The jobs were also very important to the chinese along with the gold rush because at that time there was alot of poverty in China. That meant that more and more Chinese would emigrate to America in need of money and work. Because the Americans did not want Chinese people working with them most Chinese went into railroad work. It didn't turn out to bad because they were often able to raise their saleries. ([])

Riots and rallies all against the Chinese started to form with many people inferiored by the Chinese. These riots and rallies really started getting bad around 1877. Almost everyone in Tacoma set up a anti-chinese rally. If they ever left the United States, they had to access certifications to re-enter the United States. This meant if anyone wanted to go visit their families, they basically couldn't. ([|www.questia.com])

**Explain why one factor is more important than the others.**

Racism was definatly the one factor that is more important exclusion factor. It is more important because most of the things that happened to the chinese, like getting chased out of their homes or having rallies against them, were mainly because of racism. Others had no other lodgical reason to hate them, it was just their personal beliefs about the chinese that caused conflict or exclusion between the Americans and the Chinese. Many Americans formed sterotypes about the Chinese saying that Americans were better.

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

This could have been prevented because the law of the Chinese Exclusion did not need to happen. If the people from the congress had voted against it half the things that happened to the chinese may not have happened. The people that had power in enforcing these laws also could have delt with the situation differently. They could have made new rules that involved every race not just the Americans.


 * What sources of information have you used? **

Book: Dale A. Lambert and Dustin W. Clark. Washington A state of Contrassts. East Wenatchee, WA:DMI,2008

Website: The Chines Exclusion Act-Black Legacy. The chinese Exclusion Act. 5/19/09. http://sun.meloschool.org

Encyclopedia: Chinese Exclusion. Questia. 2004. 5/19/09. http://www.questia.com