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Asian American History

1850-1900

Question: In what city did they create segregated schools for Chinese and then later Japanese children/youth?
Answer: In the San Francisco
School Board established a segregated Chinese Primary School for Chinese children to attend, including those who were American-born. By the turn-of-the century after Japanese immigrants had settled in the wake of Chinese exclusion, the School Board also applied the Chinese segregation policy to Japanese students.

Question: In 1882, Congress passed the only U.S law to prevent the Chinese immigrants from naturalization solely because one their race, what was the name of the act?
Answer: In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act—the only United States Iaw to prevent immigration and naturalization on the basis of race—which restricted Chinese immigration for the next sixty years

Question: Which ethnicity declined from 39,500 in 1882 to only 10 in 1887?
Answer: Chinese Immigrants, The "Chinese Must Go" movement was so strong that Chinese immigration to the United States declined from 39,500 in 1882 to only 10 in 1887.

Question: The Chinese immigrant workers represented 20% of California's labor force by 1870. What was the percentage of Chinese in the U.S?
Answer: 2%

Question: The Chinese immigrant workers represented 20% of the work force in California, what were some of these jobs? (Name Two)
Answer: Many men from Southern China had jobs in working as miners, railroad builders, farmers, factory workers, and fishermen.

1900-1950

Question: What year did the Japanese planes attack Pearl Harbor and entered World War II?
1. 1921
2. 1931
3. 1941
4. 1951
Answer: 3. 1941

Question: Which of the following is false:
By 1924 Asian Americans were denied citizenship, unable to own land, not allowed to speak their native language, prevented from marrying caucasians.


Answer: Not allowed to speak their native language

With the exception of Filipino "nationals," all Asian immigrants, including Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, and Indians were fully excluded by law, denied citizenship and naturalization, and prevented from marrying Caucasians or owning land.

Question: President Theodore Roosevelt signs Executive Order 589 prohibiting _________with passports for Hawaii, Mexico, or Canada to reemigrate to the U.S.
1. Chinese
2. Japanese
3. Korean
4. Filipinos
Answer: 2. Japanese

Question: What was the name of the Island on the West Coast where Chinese immigrants were detained for interrogation to come to the U.S?
Answer: Angel's Island

Question: 1930 What happened in the 5 day Anti-Filipino riot in Watsonville, California?

A. Filipinos were forced out of their homes in Watsonville California
B. Filipinos had their farms and crops burned
C. Filipinos were thrown off bridges and shot at
D. Filipinos had their houses invaded, robbed, and vandalized
Answer: C. Filipinos were thrown off bridges and shot at

They dragged Filipinos from their homes and beat them. They threw Filipinos off the Pajaro River bridge. Shots were fired into a house of 11 people hiding in a closet, one person died from a shot to the heart.

1950-1970

Question: In 1969 Students at what University in California strike for establishment of ethnic studies programs?
Answer: U.C Berkely

Question: Patsy Takemoto Mink becomes first Asian American woman to serve in Congress as representative from what state?

Answer: Hawaii!

Question: Beginning in 1975 people entered the United States after escaping from war, social chaos, discrimination, and economic hardship. What countries did these people come from? (Name two)
Answer: Beginning in 1975, Southeast Asian refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos have entered the United States after escaping from war, social chaos, discrimination, and economic hardship.

Question: In 1970, a park ranger discovered sets of Chinese characters carved into the wooden walls of the barracks. What was carved on to the walls?

Answer: Chinese immigrants carved more than one hundred poems

Angel Island detention center bears witness to the bitterness and frustration of excluded Chinese immigrants who carved more than one hundred poems into the walls.

Question: Lau v. Nichols rules that school districts...
A. Provide students with transportations from rural areas to the schools
B. Provide bilingual education
C. Provide meals to kids with low income
D. Provide translators
Answer: B. Provide bilingual education
Children who speak little English must provide them with bilingual education.

1970-2000

Question: Which president signs into law an entitlement program to pay each surviving Japanese American internee $20,000?
A. Ronald Reagan
B. Bill Clinton
C. John F. Kennedy
D. George Bush
Answer: D. President George Bush signs into law an entitlement program to pay each surviving Japanese American internee $20,000.

Question: On May 1st of what year was the month of May declared Asian American Heritage month?
A. 1990
B. 1991
C. 1992
Answer: A. 1990 signed by George H. W Bush

Question: Why was Vincent Chin beaten to death by a baseball bat outside of a club?
A. he was a victim of a hate crime
B. he was trying to stop a fight between a group of caucasian men and two Japanese men
C. he tried to pick pocket a drunk man
D. they were all drunk
Answer: A. he was a victim of a hate crime

Vincent Chin was at the club for his bachelor's party. Two men Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz said "It's because of you little motherfuckers that we're out of work!" referring to U.S. auto manufacturing jobs being lost to Japan, even though Chin was not Japanese. Chin ran and hid and was eventually found at a McDonalds Restaurant. He was beaten to death. The two men were convicted but they served no jail time, were given three years probation, fined $3,000 and ordered to pay $780 in court costs.

Question: 1988- What did the American Homecoming Act allow?

Answer: American Homecoming Act allows children in Vietnam born of American fathers to immigrate to the U.S.

Question: How were the Korean Americans effected by the Rodney King Riot in LA of 1992
A. Hate Crime
B. Robbed and looted
C. Sexual Assaults
D. Murders and Manslaughter
Answer: B. Robbed and looted
The LA Riots were sparked when a jury acquitted three white and one Hispanic Los Angeles Police Department officers accused in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King. Thousands of people in the Los Angeles area rioted over the six days following the verdict. Many Korean businesses looted and burned as a result of riots in Los Angeles due to outrage over Rodney King verdict.

MISC

Question: Who was the First Asian American Band to Top Billboard?
Answer: Far East Movement

Question: An Cao is the First Vietnamese American to serve in congress to represent what state?
A. Nevada
B. Delaware
C. Louisiana
D. Florida
Answer: C. Louisiana
Anh Cao wins a special election for a seat in the House of Representatives, representing New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the first Vietnamese-American to serve in Congress.

Question: Within each country, there are Chinese and other ethnic minority populations. Name two.
Answer: Hmong, Mien, and Khmer from Laos. (many more)

Question: During the Walker Wall Incident students wrote "Asian American Studies Now" on Walker's Wall at Pomoma College but the next day it was re-written to:
A. Asian Americans Leave Now
B. Asian Americans Die Now
C. Asian American Go Now
D. Asian American Fight Now
Answer: B. Asian Americans Die Now

Amidst the struggle for Asian American Studies, students wrote “Asian American Studies Now!” on Walker Wall of the Pomona College in the Claremont Colleges in support for more Asian American Studies courses and faculty members. Walker Wall was a popular campus site for student graffiti and semi-sanctioned by the university. However, overnight the words were changed and defaced to read “Asian Americans die Now!” sparking fear and disbelief among the Asian American community at Pomona.

Question: 2001- How does the U.S Patriot Act effect ADPIA?

Answer:
U.S. Patriot Act is considered by Congess to restrict the flow of immigrants and potential terrorists into the U.S. This Act has subsequently left to unfair treatment and detainment of South Asian persons and others in the ADPIA community.