Canada decided to reduce Asian immigration in the 1880s by
a. signing the Chinese Exclusion Act.
b. enacting literacy and citizenship tests.
c. using a quota system.
d. imposing a head tax on Chinese immigrants.
e. None of these
ANSWER:
d
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