Thus, as the number of immigrants rose in the 1880s and economic conditions in some areas worsened, Congress began to pass immigration legislation. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and Alien Contract Labor laws of 1885 and 1887 prohibited certain laborers from immigrating to the United States.
It led for the citizens of each state to decide whether or not their state would be a free or slave state. Although it did backfire with events such as bleeding Kansas
