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

The causes of the conflict were all the discrimination and prejudice against the Chinese. And the Chinese immigrants kept coming to the United States. There were too many Chinese in the US. The Americans got very upset that the Chinese were taking jobs from the Americans and thats how the conflicts had begun.

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

The people that were involved in the conflict were the Americans and the Chinese. The conflict was mainly around the discrimination and prejudice against Chinese in America. They American government forbade Chinese immigrants to come into the United States. The anti-Chinese demanded that all Chinese are to leave before November 1st. There were too many Chinese that kept coming into the United States. Many of them were taking all the jobs away from Americans, leaving many unemployed. The Chinese Exclusion Act started in 1882 and later in 1885 the Anti-Chinese Act was started. This took place in America, many states including Washington and California.

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

A political factor that helped cause the conflict was when the Anti-Chinese congress demanded all the Chinese leave Washington. The president also signed a law that effectively halted Chinese immigration for 10 years and prohibited Chinese from becoming US citizens. Some factors from economics was that the Chinese took jobs from Americans which left lots of Americans without jobs which caused lots of complications and bad feelings. Factors from geography was that the Chinese mostly went to the West Coast were there was a lot of fish which meant lots of cannaries which meant lots more job opportunities for the Chinese. Factors from history was there was an anti-Chinese commitee that encouraged Chinese to leave their houses and jobs and leave Washington.

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

The Chinese taking jobs from American is more important than the others because if the Americans hadn't felt threatened by the Chinese this whole thing wouldn't have started. The Americans didn't want the Chinese at their workplace which forced some of them to quit. The Americans were getting angry from all the Chinese taking jobs from the Americans which left lots of the them unemployed which cause lots of conflicts between Chinese and Americans. If the Americans hadn't felt threatned of have been discriminating then the whole conflict would have taken a whole different turn.

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

They could have closed off all the borders and immigration rights for the time being, but that would have caused lots more difficulties so the simplest soulution would have been to not be discriminating and share the jobs and the land with the Chinese. If there were a lot of Chinese they could have just had systems like we do now like only letting some people be immigrants and a more complicated system like today.


 * What sources of information have you used? **

Crawley, Walt. __"Anti-Chinese Activism-Seattle."__ History Link. May 2nd 1999. History Link. 5/20/09. [].

Lambert, A. Dale. Clark, W. Dustin. __"Washington A State of Contrasts."__ East Wenatchee, Washington. Directed Media Inc, 2008

"Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)." ocp.hul.harvard.edu. Harvard. 5/21/09. [].