What was the purpose of sunday laws in the southwest?
a. ban certain cultural activities that were common in hispanic communities
b. allow police to put hispanic citizens in jail for being homeless
c. force chinese immigrants to pay extra taxes to mine
d. allow white settlers to start anti-chinese groups

The purpose of Sunday laws in the southwest was to ban certain cultural activities that were common in Hispanic communities.  

Option A

Explanation:

The Sunday Laws were framed and implemented in order to promote and nurture the habit of citizens to carry out more religious activities by keeping aside what they usually did to make a living.

Some cultural activities that were performed by the Hispanic communities were identified by this law as not in line with religious activities, and hence, they were banned.

after the roman empire, the catholic church began to unify by taking on many duties of a government.