How did the US government respond to the immigration wave in the late 1800s?

In the late 1800s, the government responded to immigration by passing laws that restricted who could enter the United States. For example, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 barred most Chinese laborers from immigrating. The government did not ban all immigration, but it did use laws to limit diversity among the immigrant population, so choice D is correct.

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