The result would be the Chinese Exclusion Act, which determined that "the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States be, and the same is hereby, suspended; and during such suspension it shall not be lawful for any Chinese laborer to come, or, having so come after the expiration of said ninety days, to remain within the United States." (U.S. Congress, 1) Making as the basis for this virulently anti-Chinese legal doctrine the prevention of 'disorder' in the American labor market, the drafters of the policy exploited the genuine racial mistrust which permeated the public in order to shift blame for widespread economic woes. The wounds sustained in the Civil War were still gaping throughout the nation, with cultural tensions and the painfully resonant assassination of Abraham Lincoln underscoring a slow and uncertain recovery from the prodigious strains of conflict....

With joblessness, resource scarcity, the new labor impact of black abolition and an as yet undeveloped Western economy aligning with weak central leadership and widespread corruption, the United States had begun to fall into a pattern of severe economic imbalance.
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