What was the economic purpose that prompted the U. S. to enact the Chinese Exclusion Act as a foreign policy? A) Nativists attributed unemployment and declining wages to Chinese workers.

B) Nativists believed Chinese customs were influencing employers.

C) Chinese workers obtained higher wages than native-born Americans.

D) Trade was more profitable for China if the U. S. limited the influx of Chinese immigrants into the country.

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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discrimination! they faced a lot of racism