Fill in the Blanks SS Test 3/21/23Online version test test test test by Chelsea 1 inhabitants prejudice Exclusion reversion multitude speculators sufficient surplus nativism repealed The Chinese Act was a Chinese immigration act passed by the United States Congress in 1882 . 2 sufficient surplus exclusion inhabitants repealed speculators nativism reversion prejudice multitude However , as almost all Chinese immigrants could not prove that they were not seeing work , the act effectively banned all Chinese immigration until it was . 3 speculators surplus nativism sufficient inhabitants repealed reversion multitude exclusion prejudice The Chinese Exclusion Act was signed by President Chester Arthur . The passage of this act was driven by widespread against Chinese immigrants in general and Chinese laborers in particular . 4 nativism surplus sufficient prejudice exclusion speculators multitude reversion repealed inhabitants Many of these stayed after the Gold Rush had ended , resulting in the establishment of Chinese communities along the West Coast . 5 reversion speculators nativism multitude prejudice surplus sufficient exclusion repealed inhabitants The food shortages brought about by the rebellion caused many Chinese to fear a to those difficult times . 6 exclusion repealed speculators prejudice surplus inhabitants nativism multitude sufficient reversion As the labor grew after the Gold Rush ended , other Americans began to resent Chinese laborers and created anti - Chinese groups such as the Workingmen's Party , which connected anti - Chinese sentiment with economic and cultural arguments against Chinese immigration . 7 surplus inhabitants multitude speculators repealed exclusion reversion prejudice nativism sufficient These groups were fueled by , the idea that established deserve special treatment over immigrants . 8 reversion multitude prejudice exclusion surplus repealed speculators sufficient nativism inhabitants Hall , in which that Court ruled that minority testimony , specifically that of Chinese individuals , was not to be considered grounds for any criminal charges against a white man . 9 speculators sufficient exclusion reversion surplus inhabitants prejudice nativism repealed multitude There were a of effects from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 .