eureka, california as well as big cities like tacoma and seattle. this is an illustration of one of the well-known incidents, the massacre of chinese at rock springs, wyoming in september, 1885. it happened around a mining incident. some of the white workers and chinese workers were debating whether they wanted to go on strike. the white workers went on strike, the chinese decided not to and the white workers drove them out after inflicting massive violence on this group. there are about 28 two killed. 15 wounded and hundreds are driven out into the outlying areas. this is some of the sentiment that is shaping chinese immigration but one of the really fascinating aspects of this history is remember how diverse all those agent immigrants groups were? never the less, one this idea of chinese immigrants as being a threat to the u.s. -- a class threat, a racial threat, and economic threat -- it became attached to other immigrant groups as well. the newspapers would say "chinese excluded but now we have a japanese problem." they kept on calling them another invasion. it kind of got a little ridiculous because there was the second agent invasion and the