People believed that the gods decided who would ascend, so they had to show they were worthy of ascending. If someone had personal success, that may mean that the God wanted them to ascend.
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Democrats were mostly Southern farmers and laborers. Those that moved to the west or labored in the west found it harder to get jobs because of Chinese laborers who would work for a lower wage. The North were more industrialized so they didn’t have to worry as much about losing their jobs to Chinese laborers. Also, during this time, Southern Democrats were still more openly racist than Northern Republicans, so pure racism may have played a role as well. The key here is to point out that the evidence was made by Democrats, so Americans passed the Exclusion Act mostly by Democratic concerns and beliefs.
"D" is the best option. It sounds the most professional, and does not use childish words such as "other stuff".
The Slaughterhouse Cases, resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1873, ruled that a citizen's "privileges and immunities," as protected by the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment against the states, were limited to those spelled out in the Constitution and did not include many rights given by the individual states.
