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Question

Why did many Americans support the event in the headline?

DAILY NEWS 1886

May 6, 1886

Chinese Exclusion Act

passed; immigrants

sent home

• A. They believed that foreign workers had specialized skills that

would displace them.

• B. They hoped that an unrestricted immigration policy would

encourage job growth.

• C. They worried that the nation was expanding too slowly to take in

more people.

© D. They feared that immigrants would take all of the available jobs.

Answer

D. They feared that immigrants would take all of the available jobs.

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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1886 was passed in response to the fear that immigrants would take all of the available jobs in the United States. This fear was shared by many Americans, who supported the Act in order to protect their own job security.