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Most immigrants from China arrived in the United States through
in the 1800s.

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Chinese immigrants had come to San Francisco as early as 1838, but large numbers of Chinese only began to come in 1850 for the same reason many Americans were flocking to California - the 1849 Gold Rush.

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