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Before you do anything, please click here to print out your answer sheet. It is this answer sheet
that you will be sharing with your teammates.
Your first job is to find out about the country of China. It turns
out that the vast majority of Chinese immigrants to the United States came
from the Guangdong province in China, whose capital city is Guangzhou. Check
out the links below to find out information about China and Guangdong to
answer the questions on your answer sheet.
CIA World Factbook 1999--China
Your next job is to find out how far it is from Guangzhou, China
(the capital city of the Guangdong province) to San Francisco, California.
How far is it? Hint: you will need to use Guangzhou's old name Canton for this site to help you.
Your final job is to find the route that Chinese immigrants took
to get from the Guangdong province to California. Look at the world map
below to get your answer.
World Map from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the Universtiy of Texas at Austin
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