The answer is personal property
<span>The group that most favored the Chinese Exclusion Act were the native Americans on the West Coast. The reason for this is that there was a large amount of immigration happening during and before this time period. This lead many nativists to fear that they would lose potential work to these immigrants.</span>
The reason why the English and the French created restrictive trading laws was because they wanted to protect the integrity of the products that were being shipped to and from their colonies. I hope this helped.
