What was the main reason for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882? A) Preventing the depletion of natural resources
B) Discouraging anti-American activism
C) Reducing competition for U.S. jobs
D) Addressing a lack of urban housing

Due to migration from the Britain.

Explanation:

The colonist think of themselves as British because the people who settle in the new world were the British citizen which migrated from the Britain long time ago so technically both of them have relationship from the same nation. They had become American because they lives on the land of America for centuries so they thought themselves the citizen of America.