What Practice Became Popular Following the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

question 5

Multiple Choice

What practice became popular following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire that increased the number of Chinese people in the United States?

• A) sojourners, who came to the United States in an effort to gain enough money to return to China and purchase land
• B) paper sons, where the purchase of fraudulent documentation allowed greater immigration
• C) split households, where one member of the family-usually the husband-lives far away from the rest of the household
• D) mixed marriage, in which a Chinese man and a white woman would form a family

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