To disguise its intent of limiting Chinese family formation, the Page Act of 1875 prohibited immigration by
a. Asian women entrepreneurs.
b. Chinese women wanting to marry Anglo citizens.
c. Chinese women purported to be prostitutes.
d. Asian women who were unable to pay for their voyage from China to California.
Question 2
Phoebe Apperson Hearst represents the role that women played in turn-of-the century California through her
a. interest in and promotion of architecture and the arts which resulted in the building of the famous Hearst Castle on the Central Coast to counter the structures built by J. P. Getty in the Southland.
b. marriage to George Hearst, demonstrating that women's roles were strictly limited to the home.
c. generous philanthropy and promotion of female teacher training, the PTA, and the California branch of the WCTU, reflective of the active role that middle- and upper-class women played in charitable organization.
d. work as a professor in the University of California, reflective of women's increasing visibility in institutions of higher education.
