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Chinese Immigration History and Legislation

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What event happened on September 2, 1885?

a)

The signing of the Chinese Exclusion Act

b)

The Supreme Court's ruling supporting Wong

c)

The Wyoming Massacre

d)

The completion of the Transcontinental Railraod

2.

What did the 1875 Page Act do?

a)

excluded all Chinese people from voting

b)

banned almost all immigration of Chinese women to America

c)

required Chinese people to carry a "Certificate of Residence"

d)

stated Chinese Immigrants could not have jobs

3.

What was a reasons that Chinese people immigrated to the United States?

a)

Paper mills

b)

Cotton Factories

c)

Gold Rush

d)

Steel Mills

4.

What was one reason Chinese people immigrated to the United States?

a)

Steel Mill

b)

Transcontinental Railroad

c)

Paper Mills

d)

Cotton Mills

5.

Which act encouraged Chinese to enter and exit the United States?

a)

1870 Naturalization Act

b)

1868 Burlingame Treaty

c)

1892 Geary Act

d)

1888 Scott Act

6.

Which Chinese American wrote a letter to the editor of the Pittsburgh Dispatch in 1891 explaining that he was a man without a country?

a)

Wong Kim Ark

b)

Norman Asing

c)

Wong Chin Foo

d)

Jackie Chan

7.

The 14th amendment____________.

a)

protects free speech

b)

says the government cannot take your property

c)

is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

d)

said people born in the U.S. were U.S. citizens if their parents aren't

8.

If Taylor Alison Swift followed the old Chinese traditions for writing their names, how would it look?

a)

Swift Taylor Alison

b)

Alison Taylor Swift

c)

Taylor Alison Swift

d)

Swift Alison Taylor

9.

The 1870 Naturalization Act made people of _______ descent eligible for citizenship?

a)

Chinese

b)

African

c)

Japanese

d)

German

10.

Wong Kim Art was denied the right to come back into the country even though he was born in ______.

a)

Atlanta

b)

Columbia

c)

New York

d)

San Francisco

11.

Which law made all parts of the Chinese Exclusion laws permanent?

a)

1875 Page Act

b)

1880 Angell Treaty

c)

1888 Scott Act

d)

1902 Chinese Exclusion Act

12.

The Butte Miner's Union ordered the boycott of businesses in Montana. Which group was not a focus of their boycott?

a)

Chinese Americans

b)

Japanese Americans

c)

African Americans

13.

Which law suspended Chinese laborers from entering the U.S.?

a)

1880 Angell Treaty

b)

1888 Scott Act

c)

1892 Geary Act

d)

1875 Page Act

14.

Which of the following people supported the Chinese Americans as they fought to reject the Exclusion Acts?

a)

Senator George Hoar

b)

Wong Kim Ark

c)

Both of These

d)

Neither of These

15.

Which act was a 10 year ban on all Chinese people entering the U.S.?

a)

1882 Chinese Exclusion Act

b)

1892 Geary Act

c)

1888 Scott Act

d)

1875 Page Act

16.

What fundamental principle does Senator Hoar support?

a)

racism

b)

equality

c)

right to work

d)

protest

17.

What famous abolitionist said, “...he will give us the benefit of his skill as manufacturer and as a tiller of the soil, in which he is unsurpassed.”?

a)

William Asing

b)

John Bigler

c)

George Hoar

d)

Frederick Douglas

18.

What year was Senate Resolution 201 passed?

a)

2010

b)

2020

c)

1902

d)

2011

19.

Which act canceled the return certificates for Chinese people who had left the U.S.?

a)

1875 Page Act

b)

1888 Scott Act

c)

1892 Geary Act

d)

1880 Angell Treaty

20.

 Which act required Chinese people to carry “Certificate of Residence?”

a)

1875 Page Act

b)

1892 Geary Act

c)

1888 Scott Act

d)

1880 Angell Act

21.

Match the year to the event: Chinese Exclusion Act is indefinitely extended

a)

1902

b)

1871

c)

1849

d)

1943

22.

Match the event to the year: Twenty Chinese People are killed in LA 

following altercation with police


a)

1888

b)

190

c)

1849

d)

1871

23.

Match the year to the event: U.S. Congress “expresses regret” for the 

Chinese Exclusion Acts


a)

1943

b)

1902

c)

2011-12

d)

1849

24.

Match the year to the event: Chinese Exclusion Act is passed

a)

1882

b)

1849

c)

2011-12

d)

1943

25.

Match the year to the event: 15,000 Chinese immigrants are recruited to 

build the transcontinental railroad


a)

2011-12

b)

1865-1869

c)

1871

d)

1849

26.

Match the year to the event: California Gold Rush brings Chinese 

immigrants to “Gum San” (Gold Mountain)


a)

1849

b)

1871

c)

1902

d)

1943

27.

Match the year to the event: Chinese Exclusion Act is repealed, but 

immigration limits remain until 1965


a)

1849

b)

1882

c)

1902

d)

1943