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The main goal was to decrease competition for scarce resources. Intolerance for the Chinese increased during the California gold rush when the resource began to dwindle and competition became fierce. Chinese immigrants were forcibly expelled from the mines. A combination of competition for low wage jobs as well as racism fueled a lot of animosity toward Chinese immigrants and resulted in the Chinese Exclusion Act being passed in 1892.

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