ASIAN 422 Lecture 7: Asian 422 Lecutre 7
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Mainly around san francisco and the mining area. Early evening, there were two different chinese faction that were fighting over a chinese women. When police came to intervene, and a large group of white gathered and started killing the. In the later evening, about 15 chinese were hanged, 4 got shot, and 2 got wounded. Chinese and white man worked next to each other. White wanted to have a strike and the chinese did not want to join them. White men would block all exit areas and began to attack the chinese. Burned 79 huts owned by the chinese and eventually 28 chinese were killed, 15 were wounded. 500 chinese were able to flee because a railroad company helped. Wanted the ching government to spread the news. During his time, washington state was a territory. Territory passed a law that barred the chinese from owning property. 350 chinese lived in seattle and they were trying to get rid of them.
