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The Chinese Experience } Quiz Answer

9. Between 1950 and 2000, the population of Chinese Americans in the U.S.:

a) Doubled
 b) Increased five times
 c) Increased ten times
 d) Increased twenty times

Correct!

The correct answer is (d) It increased nearly twenty times. After the Immigration Act of 1965 removed quotas, immigration from Asia skyrocketed. Chinese Americans could more easily partake of all aspects of national life. Some Chinese Americans now found themselves wrestling with their identity in an entirely new way.
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