In the 1800s, you do not need to be a citizen to vote in the state of Oregon. Instead, voting is tied to the length of one’s residency in the state. But with a recent influx of immigrants from China and Hawaii, white racist lawmakers are growing uneasy about the exercise of political power by nonwhite residents. Predict how white Oregon lawmakers prevented Chinese and Hawaiian immigrants from voting while maintaining the rights of Dutch, German, or Norwegian immigrants to vote.