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March 6th- This is how your sandbox should start looking. Copy and paste the part of "Anti-Chinese Violence in CA" you want to update. (Make changes in sandbox and not on actual Wikipedia page yet) Sources below need MLA formatting. Go back into the BC library online where you found them and retrieve the title of the entry, book or periodical, author, date, etc... How will you use them to improve the article? Update your work log each week.Keep it up! :)

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March 15 - filtered sources more closely, eliminating irrelevant sources; copied section of article to work on

Anti-Chinese Violence (article being updated)
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1880s
Anti-Chinese violence and sentiment in America reached a peak in the 1880s. Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 which served as a pretext for violent actions against Chinese communities across the American west. Among the most notable of these violent events were the September 1885 massacre of 28 Chinese miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming and the November 1885 expulsion of Chinese-Americans from Tacoma, Washington.

On February 6, 1885, Eureka councilman David Kendall was accidentally shot and killed by a Chinese man. The shooting served as pretext for expelling all Chinese residents of Humboldt County to San Francisco. Del Norte County similarly expelled its Chinese population in January 1886.

1885 and 1886 saw an unprecedented wave of violence against Chinese Americans in California. Arroyo Grande, Marysville, Merced, Nicolaus, Pasadena, Redding, Red Bluff, Riverside, Truckee and Tulare all expelled their Chinese populations in those years. The Truckee expulsion was particularly brutal. White residents had previously attempted to expel the Chinese population of Truckee in 1875, 1876 and 1878 but failed each time. In early 1886, white residents began boycotting local merchants who sold any goods to Chinese people. Every single business in Truckee quickly stopped selling any supplies to the Chinese and most Chinese residents left. A few remained, but the remaining buildings in Chinatown were burnt to the ground, resulting in three deaths.

Anti-Chinese violence continued into 1887, with arsonists targeting a number of Chinatowns across California, including those of Chico, Fresno and San Jose.

As a result of anti-Chinese laws and violence in the 1880s, California's Chinese population declined by 37%. The Chinese had been 8.7% of California's population as of the 1880 Census.

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Potential References

 * Chinese LA in 1870-1871: The Makings of a Massacre (find alternate access to source)
 * By Soil or By Blood: https://butte.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=31h&AN=110938239&site=ehost-live&scope=sit 
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