WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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It created alliances with Japan that weakened political relations with China and other parts of Asia.
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It passed laws that forced immigrants to prove that they had relatives already living in the United States.
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It passed laws that prevented European immigrants within the United States.
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It refused to create trade agreements with China.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur . This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -American objections to Chinese immigration took many forms, and generally stemmed from economic and cultural tensions, as well as ethnic discrimination. Most Chinese laborers who came to the United States did so in order to send money back to China to support their families there.
Detailed explanation-4: -Many of them came from countries that had had few people move to the United States in the past. At that time, war, famine, and a poor economy in southeastern China caused many Chinese men to come to America. Most of them hoped to find great wealth and return to China.
Detailed explanation-5: -In the 1920s, Congress passed a series of immigration quotas. The quotas were applied on a country-by-country basis and therefore restricted immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe more than immigration from Northern and Western Europe.