Haley+G


 * What do you believe were the causes of the conflict?**

The reason that they passed this law was because the American poeple thought that the Chinese were taking all the jobs and they were starting to bring their whole families over to America and it was getting crowded. They also believed that there was racisisum. The Americans thought that the Chinese were up to no good and thought that they were trying to kill off all the Amaricans.

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

The relevant background information would be that the conflict was between the Chinese people and the United States. The Conflect was that the Chinese were excluded from all American activities and jobs. The Chinese Exclusion Act Bill was passed on October 8, 1885. This mostly took place in Washington State.

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

The Civics of the conflict were that American people would get together and run the Chinese people out of their homes and gropus of people would try and get the Chinese people fired from their jobs. The Economics of this conflict were that the Chinese were here in the first place to do jobs like work on the railroad. A little history of the conflict was that all people of Tacoma would hold anti-chinese rallies on the town.

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

I think that the civics tell/show that the American people never really liked the Chinese people. They tries to get them fired and they burned down their homes.

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

If the people in charge of passing laws didnt pass the Chinese Exclusoin law then most of the things that happened between the American and the Chinese wouldn't have even started. People of power could have delt with the conflict better. They could have told people to stop the racisisum.


 * What sources of information have you used? **

Chinese Exclusion Act, [|www.historylink.org], May 2, 1999, May 20, 2009, http://historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage:output.cfm&file_id=1057 Chinese Exclusion Act, [|www.sun.melonschool.org], May 19, 2009, sun.melonschool.org/~mbrody/ushistory/angle/exclusion_act/