Question 13 Multiple Choice Worth 3 points) (MC)The text below is from a U. S. government act in 1882:
"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the expiration
of ninety days next after the passage of this act, and until the expiration of ten years next after the passage of this act, the coming of Chinese laborers
to the United States be, and the same is hereby, suspended; and during such suspension it shall not be lawful for any Chinese laborer to come, or
having so come after the expiration of said ninety days to remain within the United States,
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This government act was passed in response to which of the following?
violent behavior from Chinese immigrants living in the North
nativist protests in the West against Chinese immigrant laborers
complaints from immigrants who came from European countries
nativist laborers in the North who lobbied to Congress