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

The people who are most responsible for Chinese Exclusion is the government of the United States for agreeing with the anti-Chinese groups and making the Chinese exclusion act. Finding ways around the Bulingame-Seward treaty (Chinese Exclusion acts) with China that allows Chinese immigrants into USA but US government found ways to limit the rights and to say the how Chinese get into America. Then even blocked a whole group (Chinese workers) only allowing in Chinese students, Chinese politicians, etc. This fueled the fire for the anti-Chinese groups because the US government would not stop them from going through towns and running Chinese people from their homes. Even when the Chinese boycotted Americans US government didn't support it but told the Chinese government to stop what they doing (Chinese Exclusion Acts). Only after world war II when Chinese helped fight did relations with China increase.

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

The Chinese came to America to work in the goldmines, railroads or any other job. Chinese usually when they got here and started working sent money back home to their families. Also reasons to pay off debts like most Chinese owed debts to get to America. For any reason the Chinese would work at any job for low pay. When the gold was plentiful and the jobs were many other non-Chinese workers. Yet when the gold run low and jobs being taken left and right; caused Euro-American counter parts to feel threaten that they my lose their jobs to the Chinese. Usually because businesses would want someone that would work for less instead someone who would work but ask for more. Causing riots and anti-Chinese groups to become more hostile driving Chinese people out of their homes (Perkins). The American government did not try to stop it instead but made sure no Chinese worker got into America or back into. This was the Chinese exclusion act of 1882 (Lambert, 246-247) making it so you needed a pass to get into America and if you were a Chinese worker their was no way to get into America. Making the anti-Chinese riots of 1886 driving Chinese people out of their homes and from their jobs.

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

The three factors were was that Chinese were taking jobs for low wages, the depression, and all hate against the Chinese was not a very good mix. The hate was the main factor because one hater makes a group and that groups starts to get big enough that they starts to want action and riots begin. With the Chinese taking any job for lower pay then others. This made non-Chinese workers angry causing riots that drive the Chinese right out of their home and then the Depression struck (Perkins). Businesses needed cheap labor to have hope of surviving, that did not go over well with other workers that fell threaten that they might lose their job to the Chinese. When this started happening the US government decided that calm thing down they would not try to stop the riots instead try to stop Chinese exclusion act. After that the government pulled more and more rights away all caused by riots because over 200 cleansing (riots) (Perkins) most of them happened before the Exclusion act of 1882 (Lambert, 246-247). Even that caused riots and other methods by anti-Chinese groups to get rid of Chinese, methods like encouraging businesses to let go of their Chinese workers and threats to Chinese that they would remove them from their homes and they did do it.


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

The hate was the most important because as I said before hate caused people to get angry at the Chinese in the first place. The hate in this case is unfortunately is racism and that racism made people angry that Chinese could take their jobs. Then the depression struck that just got people angrier and angrier causing more riots then before. Hate created the anti-Chinese groups to get bigger and violent, their was even hate in Washington D.C. because Republicans felt sympathetic towards the anti-Chinese (Chinese Exclusion Acts) and ended up creating the Chinese Exclusion act of 1882 (Lambert, 246-247). Fueling the hate even more causing the riots of 1886 (Lambert, 246-247), in Washington State mobs went into China Towns going through home after home. Throwing them out of their homes or from work most likely never to return and high chance to receive that same in-justice in their next home in a another town. There was also other methods including less violent and physical methods by sending messages and hanging up filers casting messages to businesses to let go of their Chinese workers forcing them to find new jobs in a another town (Lambert, 246-247). That started with hate slowly spreading, growing stronger and violent.

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

This conflict could have been stopped if a political official decided that they need to stop the riots and stop the racism from affecting jobs and other people. That one official could start a group with goal to stop the hate from spreading convincing other politicians to join the cause. Slowly gaining recognition and support that group could have stop the riots and those racist messages from being put up. Stopping the government from creating the Chinese Exclusion act of 1882 (Lambert, 246-247) improving Chinese relations. Then after their help with World War II those now decreasing anti-Chinese would decrease ever so much faster. Solving the whole ordeal and in quick manner, instead we didn't.

Chinese Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Acts, U.S. Department of State, Thursday, May 21, 2009, USA.gov, Thursday, May 21, 2009, []# Lambert, Dale and Clark, Dustin, Washington: a state of contrasts, East wenatchee, WA, DMI, 2008 Perkins, Gween, Exclusion in Washington, Washington state history museum, 5/20/09, []
 * What sources of information have you used? **