The military used bases to suppress anti-Chinese railroad riots

Evidence

With conquest across the continent complete, U.S. bases protected the continuing stream of Euro-Americans heading westward and battled the few remaining unconquered Indian nations. Elsewhere, the military established new bases to quell anti-Chinese riots along the construction route for the Union Pacific railroad. When major Native armed resistance ended, the U.S. government began consolidating many of the frontier forts and turned its attention outside the North American continent. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 61

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the same base-and-policing machinery used against Native nations being turned on Chinese laborers — a through-line on who US basing polices, connecting to later accounts of foreign bases.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 61