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
b. paper sons, where the purchase of fraudulent documentation allowed greater immigration
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