The Federal Government Responded to the Problem of Discrimination Against

question 53

Multiple Choice

The federal government responded to the problem of discrimination against the Chinese in nineteenth-century California by

• A) barring Chinese immigration to the United States in 1882.
• B) passing a civil rights law that protected them from anti-immigrant violence.
• C) establishing a quota limiting Chinese immigration to 10,000 per year.
• D) paying white workers higher wages to do agricultural work.

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