The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. Those on the West Coast were especially prone to attribute declining wages and economic ills on the despised Chinese workers.
Answer:
The industrial revolution provided funding for wealthier European nations to expand their territories. They also searched for places rich with the materials they needed for their businesses and for new market places for their goods.
The Pacific railroad was constructed between 1863 and 1869.
On December 31, 1492, the Catholic Kings signed in Granada a proclamation to expel Jews from the Kingdom of Castile. Ferdinand II also signed another document relating to Jews in the Kingdom of Aragon. The justification for this measure was given on the basis of a document produced by the Chief Inquisitor and personal confessor of Queen Isabella of Castile, Fr Tomas de Torquemada, a few days earlier. The arguments were purely religious in nature: measures are being taken to preserve the unity and spread the Catholic faith, because, according to numerous reports by various priests, Jews are in every way trying to assent Christians to Judaism.
Explanation:
- Reconquista is a period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula from 8th to 15th Century.
- The Spanish and Portuguese conquered their lands, occupied by the Arabs since 711.
- While in Portugal the Reconquista ended as early as the mid 13th Century, In Spain it lasted until the conquest of Granada in 1492.
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