The excerpt below is a comment about the Chinese Exclusion Act. The Chinese Exclusion Act was enacted in response to economic fears, especially on the West Coast, where native-born Americans attributed unemployment and declining wages to Chinese workers

–“Aspiration, Acculturation, and Impact,”

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Which sentence best paraphrases the excerpt?

1. The Chinese Exclusion Act was enacted in response to economic fears.

2. The Chinese Exclusion Act was influenced by native-born Americans’ fear of the Chinese.

3. Natural-born citizens in the US blamed Chinese immigrants for loss of jobs and lower wages.

4. Chinese workers were taking American jobs and causing wages to drop.

he believed that congress would be better not dealing with "lobbyists", or people who seek to influence (a politician or public official) on an issue, since historically, they had problems with these kinds of people. he thought lobbying produces benefits, but should be carefully monitored.

an economic reason that the south needed a reconstruction plan is that plantations, factories, and other businesses were destroyed during the war.

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explanation:

the  equal rights amendment  (era) states: "equality  of  rights  under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of sex." congress first introduced the era in 1923, but the campaign for ratification took off in the 1960s during the  civil rightsmovement.