USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Many Americans on the West Coast attributed declining wages and economic ills to Chinese workers. Although the Chinese composed only 0.002 percent of the nation’s population, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act to placate worker demands and assuage concerns about maintaining white “racial purity."

Detailed explanation-2: -Passage of the law was preceded by growing anti-Chinese sentiment and anti-Chinese violence, as well as various policies targeting Chinese migrants. The act followed the Angell Treaty of 1880, a set of revisions to the U.S.–China Burlingame Treaty of 1868 that allowed the U.S. to suspend Chinese immigration.

Detailed explanation-3: -Which factor contributed MOST to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882? Factories provided much-needed jobs. Why were immigrants more likely to settle in urban, industrial centers rather than rural, agricultural regions?

Detailed explanation-4: -People of the West Coast attributed declining wages and economic troubles to the hated Chinese workers. To appease them, Congress passed this, halting Chinese immigration into America. The reason behind the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was to prevent an excess of cheap labor.

Detailed explanation-5: -This act was the first significant restriction on free immigration in U.S. history, and it excluded Chinese laborers from the country under penalty of imprisonment and deportation. It also made Chinese immigrants permanent aliens by excluding them from U.S. citizenship.