The factors that contributed to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 were that working class of America were afraid that the Chinese would lower pay rates and end up taking their jobs as the time goes on. As the script of "The Chinese Must Go" say "Chinaman plenty work, plenty money, plenty to eat. Whiteman no work, no money, die- sabee?" This says that the Chinese have work and that supplies them with money and food, but the Whiteman has nothing and will die. Showing that the Chinese are trying to take the jobs and money from the Whiteman. Another example is from the "Workingmen of San Francisco" article. It says "Today, every avenue to labor, of every sort, is crowded with Chinese slave labor worse than it was eight years ago. The boot, shoe
