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☆☆☆☆☆The official right to use an invention (Apex)
There is a plaque with a poem The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus, addressed to those who arrive in America from foreign lands. In part it reads:
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 prevented Chinese people from becoming U.S. citizens for 10 years. The purpose was to prevent the United States from being "overrun" by enormous numbers of Chinese laborers willing to work for much lower wages than less recent immigrants.
There was very little need for skilled labor
Immigration from Mexico increased because the Chinese were not allowed to immigrate.
To build railroads
Poor families needed the money.
Benevolent associations
the cotton gin
The Nativist groups wanted to stop the mass immigration to the US because they believe the immigrants take their job opportunities.
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Thomas Edison
