Question

SEC. 14. … [H]ereafter no State court or court of the United States shall admit Chinese to citizenship; and all laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

—Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882

Use the excerpt to answer the question.
What prompted this law?

Answer 1

The answer is competition for jobs. The Chinese would do a lot of work for very little pay, most Americans couldn't keep up and were losing their jobs to these Chinese immigrants.