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Document A: A quote from the Mayor of San Francisco in a newspaper article
It is my firm belief that an exclusion act, even more stringent than the present one, should be
passed in the matter of the Japanese immigrants... We may say that the Japanese is enlightened,
and this being true, his education prompts him to adopt American ways, and thus, with his cheap
labor, dig at the foundation upon which rests the welfare of our people. Where a Chinese will
work upon a farm at starvation wages, a Japanese has the ability to acquire the property itself.
The Chinese are dangerous enough, but the Japanese would drive all competition out of business.
It is the stern duty of the American citizen, and particularly of those of us upon this western
coast, to scrutinize this evil and then suppress it with appropriate legislation.
Document B: A passage from a book about one immigrant's journey to America
Preparation was now made for landing. The quarantine doctor took the captain's word that we
were all in good health; his attention was required for the inspection of some very large emigrant
ships that lay near us. There had been 4,700 emigrants landed on the previous Thursday, and we
learned on Monday that 10,035 had arrived on the Saturday and Sunday, principally Germans,
each possessed of a small capital, and all ready to proceed instantly to the various German
settlements in the interior, without staying to waste their means in New York. The Custom-house
officer's duty was a mere form. We landed on the New Jersey side, and Mr. Brooks and I entered
a vehicle which drove right on board a river steamer, and the moment we touched the New York
shore it was driven on, and we were on the streets...
1. Document likely written first because...
2. Document likely written after because...

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Document B was likely written first because it discusses being on the ship. From the paragraph, they have not yet gotten to the coast. It means that if they have not gone aboard, they are still experiencing departure, making this the first. Later, they went aboard a current boat, finally getting to the road. Also, as he starts off, he speaks about the quarantine doctor because they will deny them access to the island unless they take and pass a test based on their physicals.

Document A was likely written after because it discusses the immigrants already being in the United States. Meaning it is something that cannot be written first if they were already in the United States. The mayor declares there should be another elimination act. He announced this based on the Japanese's intelligence. The Chinese would work for starving wages, despite them having it.