USA HISTORY

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Base your answer to the question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies. That the master of any vessel who shall knowingly bring within the United States on such vessel, and land or permit to be landed, any Chinese laborer, from any foreign port or place, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars for each and every such Chinese laborer so brought, and may be also imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year. Source:Section 2, Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882 Passage of this legislation was mainly a response to
A
economic and race-based opposition to immigrants in the western United States
B
demands by businesses for additional workers
C
efforts of the American Federation of Labor to recruit skilled workers
D
pressure from railroads to limit competition in shipping
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Homestead Act encouraged western migration by providing settlers with 160 acres of land in exchange for a nominal filing fee. Among its provisions was a five-year requirement of continuous residence before receiving the title to the land and the settlers had to be, or in the process of becoming, U.S. citizens.

Detailed explanation-2: -The American colonists were angered by the Stamp Act and quickly acted to oppose it. Because of the colonies’ sheer distance from London, the epicenter of British politics, a direct appeal to Parliament was almost impossible.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. Decreed on October 7, 1763, the Proclamation Line prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War.

Detailed explanation-4: -One reason self-government developed before the French and Indian War was because Great Britain practiced salutary or benign neglect. As long as the colonies were making Great Britain money, Great Britain let the colonists do what they wanted.

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