In the early days, immigrant Chinese built up businesses making shoes, clothes or cigarettes, until eventually the Chinese migrants seemed to dominate these industries in San Francisco, causing the local Caucasian population to develop ill will toward these Chinese.
在早期，來美華人投入造鞋、製衣、和製煙等行業，最後幾乎主導了舊金山市內這幾個工業的發展，進而引起更早進來舊金山區的白人的排華心理。