Which of the following best explains why chinese immigrants moved to the united states in the 1800s? chinese immigrants wanted to start their own railroads. chinese immigrants wanted to send money to their families. chinese immigrants wanted to escape religious persecution. chinese immigrants wanted to settle in east coast cities.

To send money to their families. Chinese large-scale migration to the U.S. began with the First Opium War, a war started by Great Britain against the Chinese Empire in 1839 that lasted until 1842, in wich Britain forced China to recognize them as equals and grant them many unprecendented trade rights. Large-scale chinese migration to america was carachterized by young men who had left their families back home, chinese society was marked by many social nets such as guilds and sometimes they would finance the immigration, some villages and even whole regions arranged for most of their young men to immigrate to America in order to send back money.

sned money home to their families on edge

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the answer to your question is c