Asian Americans

Passed in 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act did what?

• closed America to Chinese immigrants for the next ten years
• welcomed more Chinese immigrants to America to perform hard work
• allowed Chinese immigrants, but only under a very strict set of rules
• closed America to Chinese immigrants for three years then allowed a few at a time

This law specifically barred Chinese laborers from entering the US, and was in place for more than 60 years.

• The Chinese Exclusion Act
• The Ban on Foreign Labor Act
• The Asian Immigration Act
• The Chinese Labor Law

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CCSS.RL.8.9

Which idea led to a rise in anti-immigrant groups and a demand for immigration restrictions?

• Melting Pot
• Birds of Passage
• Nativism
• All of the above

The settlement of the dispute over Japanese immigration by TR was called the

• Root-Takahira Agreement
• Great White Fleet
• Gentleman's Agreement
• Panama Canal Crisis

The goal of the National Origins Act of 1924 was to

• reduce immigration from the United States to European Countries
• revive the Ku Klux Klan
• reduce immigration to the United States from the European countries
• create more jobs

An Anti-immigration sentiment (feeling or fear) is called

• Fundamentalism
• Nativism
• Communism
• Modernism

Where was Angel Island located?

• San Antonio, Texas
• New York, New York
• San Francisco, California
• Los Angeles, California

Why was Pearl Harbor important?

• It had many pearls around it
• It was a great tourist area
• It was an American Naval Base
• The President lived there

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CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which of the following best matches this definition: The order given by the US president that said all Japanese or Japanese Americans living in the United States were to be taken from the homes and forced to live in camps until the end of WWII. The US was afraid that these citizens, were spies for the Japanese Empire.

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Rosie the Riviter

• Navajo Code Talkers

• Manhatten Project

• Executive Order 9066

During WWII, the Supreme Court ruled that relocation of Japanese-American citizens to internment camps was constitutional. Over 40 years later, it was officially admitted that this ruling was in violation of the concept of limited government.

• Korematsu v. US
• University of California v. Bakke
• Roe v. Wade
• Gideon v. Wainwright