Pre-Assessment

In 1882, the United States passed the first law that singled out a specific race and nationality for exclusion -- forbidding any immigration from people of this nation and denying those already in the US to become citizens.

• Italy

• China

• Mexico

• Russia

The Chinese Exclusion Act restricted immigration and citizenship for more than ____ years.

• 20

• 30

• 50

• 60

The 1898 case of the US v Wong Kim Ark established that...

• Chinese people cannot be US citizens.

• the US government has the right to restrict immigration against non-white people.

• Anyone born in the US are automatically citizens.

• the US cannot restrict immigration based on race or nationality.

The processing center for immigrants entering on the West Coast, located outside of San Francisco, was known as...

• Ellis Island

• Indian Island

• Freedom Island

• Angel Island

What was the main source of resentment toward Asian people in America?

• economic fears of having jobs taken away

• educational concerns of outperforming other students

• racial fears of intermixing between the races

• social fears that Asians considered themselves to be superior

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, how were the Japanese people treated that were living in the US?

• They were protected by the US for fears that Japan would try to force them back.

• They were feared so no one would talk to them.

• They faced some discrimination from those who blamed them for the bombing.

• They were rounded up by the US government and forced into camps.

The murderers of Vincent Chin in Detroit in 1982...

• received life sentences.

• were let off with a small fine.

• were never found.

• were found not guilty.

The "Yellow Power" movement in the 1960s and 1970s fought for...

• getting ethnic studies programs on university campuses.

• an end to the Chinese Exclusion Act.

• reparations for the Japanese people forced into internment camps.

• and end to the Vietnam War.