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WorksheetsChinese Immigration History and Legislation
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 14mins
What event happened on September 2, 1885?
The signing of the Chinese Exclusion Act
The Supreme Court's ruling supporting Wong
The Wyoming Massacre
The completion of the Transcontinental Railraod
What did the 1875 Page Act do?
excluded all Chinese people from voting
banned almost all immigration of Chinese women to America
required Chinese people to carry a "Certificate of Residence"
stated Chinese Immigrants could not have jobs
What was a reasons that Chinese people immigrated to the United States?
Paper mills
Cotton Factories
Gold Rush
Steel Mills
What was one reason Chinese people immigrated to the United States?
Steel Mill
Transcontinental Railroad
Paper Mills
Cotton Mills
Which act encouraged Chinese to enter and exit the United States?
1870 Naturalization Act
1868 Burlingame Treaty
1892 Geary Act
1888 Scott Act
Which Chinese American wrote a letter to the editor of the Pittsburgh Dispatch in 1891 explaining that he was a man without a country?
Wong Kim Ark
Norman Asing
Wong Chin Foo
Jackie Chan
The 14th amendment____________.
protects free speech
says the government cannot take your property
is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
said people born in the U.S. were U.S. citizens if their parents aren't
If Taylor Alison Swift followed the old Chinese traditions for writing their names, how would it look?
Swift Taylor Alison
Alison Taylor Swift
Taylor Alison Swift
Swift Alison Taylor
The 1870 Naturalization Act made people of _______ descent eligible for citizenship?
Chinese
African
Japanese
German
Wong Kim Art was denied the right to come back into the country even though he was born in ______.
Atlanta
Columbia
New York
San Francisco
Which law made all parts of the Chinese Exclusion laws permanent?
1875 Page Act
1880 Angell Treaty
1888 Scott Act
1902 Chinese Exclusion Act
The Butte Miner's Union ordered the boycott of businesses in Montana. Which group was not a focus of their boycott?
Chinese Americans
Japanese Americans
African Americans
Which law suspended Chinese laborers from entering the U.S.?
1880 Angell Treaty
1888 Scott Act
1892 Geary Act
1875 Page Act
Which of the following people supported the Chinese Americans as they fought to reject the Exclusion Acts?
Senator George Hoar
Wong Kim Ark
Both of These
Neither of These
Which act was a 10 year ban on all Chinese people entering the U.S.?
1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
1892 Geary Act
1888 Scott Act
1875 Page Act
What fundamental principle does Senator Hoar support?
racism
equality
right to work
protest
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.”?
William Asing
John Bigler
George Hoar
Frederick Douglas
What year was Senate Resolution 201 passed?
2010
2020
1902
2011
Which act canceled the return certificates for Chinese people who had left the U.S.?
1875 Page Act
1888 Scott Act
1892 Geary Act
1880 Angell Treaty
Which act required Chinese people to carry “Certificate of Residence?”
1875 Page Act
1892 Geary Act
1888 Scott Act
1880 Angell Act
Match the year to the event: Chinese Exclusion Act is indefinitely extended
1902
1871
1849
1943
Match the event to the year: Twenty Chinese People are killed in LA
following altercation with police
1888
190
1849
1871
Match the year to the event: U.S. Congress “expresses regret” for the
Chinese Exclusion Acts
1943
1902
2011-12
1849
Match the year to the event: Chinese Exclusion Act is passed
1882
1849
2011-12
1943
Match the year to the event: 15,000 Chinese immigrants are recruited to
build the transcontinental railroad
2011-12
1865-1869
1871
1849
Match the year to the event: California Gold Rush brings Chinese
immigrants to “Gum San” (Gold Mountain)
1849
1871
1902
1943
Match the year to the event: Chinese Exclusion Act is repealed, but
immigration limits remain until 1965
1849
1882
1902
1943
