The civil rights movement (also known as the American civil rights movement and other terms)[b] in the United States was a decades-long struggle by African Americans to end legalized racial discrimination, disenfranchisement and racial segregation in the United States. The movement has its origins in the Reconstruction era during the late 19th century, although the movement achieved its largest legislative gains in the mid-1960s after years of direct actions and grassroots protests. The social movement's major nonviolent resistance campaigns eventually secured new protections in federal law for the human rights of all Americans
The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in 1882, and it suspended Chinese immigration to the United States. The goal of this act was to prevent the American workers' wages from being lowered, as the Chinese could provide cheap labor. This also aimed to prevent America from being overpopulated by Chinese immigrants.
European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. It was enacted in 1948 and provided more than $15 billion to help finance rebuilding.
