<span>The U.S. government supported nativist attitudes during the 1920's due to the rising levels of nationalist sentiment that was growing within the American population. The outcome of WWI and other related events had shifted popular opinion well in that direction. As a means of supporting these positions, the government issued the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921 and National Origins Act of 1924, pieces of legislation which imposed quotas on the allowable levels of immigration from certain European nations.</span>
Nine out of 10 workers on the transcontinental railroad were Chinese. These indentured laborers, derogatorily called "coolies," became a prime target for criticism in the mid-19th century
<span>establish the League of Nations. Opposition to the League of Nations by the U.S. Senate during the Paris Peace Conference. gave Allied leaders in Paris a stronger bargaining position. After the Treaty of Versailles had been signed, Woodrow Wilson.</span>
