The Chinese in the late nineteenth-century West rarely resisted exclusion laws for fear of mob violence against them.

Chinese

Relating to China, its people, languages, or culture.

Exclusion Laws

Laws implemented to restrict or prohibit certain groups of people, often based on race or nationality, from immigrating to or residing in a country.

Mob Violence

Acts of violence carried out by large groups of people outside the boundaries of legal and civil conduct, often driven by collective social or political grievances.