Anti-Chinese violence in Oregon began while the present-day U.S. state was still the Oregon Territory (1848 – 1859).
In Oregon mobs drove Chinese workers out of small towns and workplaces territory-wide in the winter of 1885 and summer of 1886.[1] Many of the Chinese expelled across Oregon made their way to Portland, where they settled in the city's Chinatown. In Portland the Chinese were mostly tolerated because of its close commercial shipping ties to China.[1]
In 1888, the United States National Guard constructed an armory at 11th Avenue and Couch Street in Portland, with an addition (the First Regiment Armory Annex) built in 1891. This part of the city is not far from Portland's Chinatown, and the National Guard built the armory there because it feared an uprising by the Chinese.
   | Lesson Fifteen: Industrialization, Class, and Race: Chinese and the Anti-Chinese Movement in the Late 19th-Century Northwest - History of Washington State and the Pacific Northwest |
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