Asian American Civil Rights

In the 1980s, the US government paid_________ to the Japanese Americans who were wrongly imprisoned at internment camps during World War 2.

• exclusion

• ancestry

• reparations

• naturalization

The process of ______________ was not available to Chinese __________ living in the US, which meant they could not become citizens.

• naturalization, immigrants

• scapegoat, ancestry

• colonialism, alliance

• immigrants, naturalization

The Chinese ___________ Act of 1882 banned Chinese immigration to the US, yet the US government continues to allow immigration from western European countries.

• alliance

• exclusion

• immigrants

• colonialism

It was legal to send children to segregated schools based on their _________ until the Supreme Court ruled it illegal in 1954 (Brown v. Board of Education).

• immigrants

• colonialism

• reparations

• ancestry

Asian Americans became the ____________ for the economic and social problems in California in the mid 1800s.

• scapegoat

• colonialism

• naturalization

• immigrants

What event led to the detainment and relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps?

• the formation f the Asian American Political Alliance

• the US Supreme Court case involving Fred Korematsu

• the bombing of Pearl Harbor

• the murder of Vincent Chin

Which Asian American's court case helped the fight towards ending public school segregation?

• Fred Korematsu

• Yuri Kochiyama

• Mitsuye Endo

• Joseph and Mary Tape