The passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act<span> came after a long period of anti-</span>Chinese <span>discrimination. ... The </span>Chinese Exclusion Act<span> of 1882 was one of the first pieces of legislation passed by the United </span>States<span> government to legally discriminate against the </span>Chinese<span> people.</span>
1. nearly 15 times the population of New France
2. support of the IROQUOIS, the strongest confederation of Indian tribes in America
3. English Navy was the strongest navy in the world
Despite the North's greater population, however, the South had an army almost equal in size during the first year of the war. The North had an enormous industrial advantage as well. At the beginning of the war, the Confederacy had only one-ninth the industrial capacity of the Union. But that statistic was misleading
