The main reason behind the creation of these restrictions was Discouraging anti-American activism
A lot of Americans were angry and were complaining about lowered wages and economic downturns because of the Chinese workers.
These complaints existed even though the Chinese workers were few. They were only 0.002 percent of the entire population.
The American congress had to pass these laws in order to placate the workers and to also maintain what they called white purity.
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