A larger number of Chinese in the U.S. moved to San Francisco’s Chinatown in the late 19th century because

Question

BlackTom AI · Accepted Answer

The question asks us to identify the historical reason why a larger number of Chinese in the U.S. moved to San Francisco’s Chinatown in the late 19th century.
Option 1: 'Most Chinese were city people in China and had difficulties to adjust to rural life.' While some immigrants came from urban settings, this answer overgeneralizes and ignores specific pressures in the U.S. It also doesn’t explain why they clustered in Chinatown or moved there in larger numbers during that period.
Option 2: 'Alien land laws forced Chinese farmers to give up their land.' This option inaccurately describes the situation for Chinese immigrants in the late 19th century United States; alien land laws were enacted later and affected different contexts, and they did not itself drive a general migration into Chinatown as a communal response.
Option 3: 'Hawaiian plantation owners refused to renew their contracts.' This choice ties the movement to a particular source of labor displacement that is not the primary historical driver for Chinese migration into San Francisco’s Chinatown in that era. It does not account for the broader pattern of settlement and community formation in urban ethnic enclaves.
Option 4: 'Mob attack and violence forced them to rely on one another in isolated urban communities.' This statement reflects the well-documented reality that Chinese immigrants faced discrimination, violence, and legal restrictions in the late 19th century, which pushed many into tight-knit ethnic neighborhoods like Chinatown where mutual aid and communal networks could provide support and security. The clustering served practical needs (housing, work, social networks) in a hostile environment.
In summary, the most historically accurate explanation among the options is that violent prejudice and mob attacks left Chinese immigrants with a need to band together in protected, self-sufficient urban communities, leading to the growth of Chinatown as a social and economic hub.

AS AM 1 W25 Homework III

A larger number of Chinese in the U.S. moved to San Francisco’s Chinatown in the late 19th century because

View Explanation

Log in for full answers

Similar Questions

__________ immigrants were particularly instrumental in building railroads in the American west.

Compared to the Chinese who were detained on the Angel Island during the exclusion, the Chinese war brides

The lobby to win admission of citizens’ Chinese wives was led in public by

Farmers in Santa Barbara, led by William W. Hollister, supported Chinese immigration because

In Remaking Chinese America, the author argues that the Chinese brought more boys than girls to the United States

According to Remaking Chinese America, many Chinese American families were “transnational” during the exclusion because

In the years following the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which community organization led the legal battles against discriminatory laws?

Most early Chinese immigrants came from the current Guangdong region because

More Practical Tools for Students Powered by AI Study Helper

Homework AI Solver

Stylized AI Paper Writer

Plagiarism Checker Assistant

Citation AI Academic Writing Tool

In-Class Translation Assistant

AI Note Generator

AI Quiz Answers

Past Exam Questions from University Test Bank

Smart Practice Assistant

Adaptive Practice

Making Your Study Simpler