HIST 114 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Santa Barbara City College
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Word circulated on gold mountain of riches to be made. More and more chinese men have left their homes and families to move to. Some of those who have made the journey have been well enough to pay for their travel across the pacific ocean. Most couldn"t afford to pay for the trip though. Buying a ticket for the four-to eight-week trip from guangzhou to. San francisco on a steamship cost to (about to. Most chinese who came to america in the second half of the nineteenth century paid in one of two forms for their voyage. Some have come in as contract workers. Such people agreed to work for one boss for a fixed number of years, who paid for the steamship ticket costs. Most chinese contract workers had contracts with other chinese people who had already been to america.
