Question

Upon arrival to the United States in the early 1900s, where were Chinese immigrants usually processed?

Answer 1

D. Angel Island in San Francisco Bay

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct answer to the following question will be Option D (Angel Island in San Francisco Bay).

Explanation:

• Mostly in the middle of the 19th century, immigration from China to the United States began. In 1847, the first Chinese immigrants came to the US.
• The schooling came to New York City with three Chinese students. One was the first Chinese to graduate from a college in the United States, graduating from Yale in 1854. Next year, 1848, there came a silk trader and two men and a woman, the first real immigrant.
• For the same reasons as the Europeans, the Chinese arrived in America. There has been hunger and destitution for years in China, so China has come to the United States to work and send money home. The Chinese who came to the United States were mostly poor male peasants. They left their wives and their children waiting for money to come back to China.
• The United States in 1862, congress passed a law prohibiting the transportation of Chinese immigrants to America by American ships. 20 years later, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 because of fear and ignorance.

So, Option D is the right answer.