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Assignment:

Answer the following questions:

1. What were some of the factors that led to increased Chinese laborers in the latter half of the 1800s?

• Why were Chinese workers needed to build the Transcontinental Railroad?
• Why did the Chinese workers want to come to the U.S. to build the railroad?

2. What led to the creation of the Chinese Exclusion Act?

• How was the Chinese Exclusion Act an example of xenophobia in the late 19th century?
• What were the consequences of the Chinese Exclusion Act?

3. What is Tape v. Hurley and its significance to the Asian American experience?

4. What is Wong Kim Ark v. the United States and its significance to the Asian American experience?

5. What factors lead to a rise in immigrants from Asia to Hawaii?

• Did all Americans feel that the Pacific expansion of the United States was a good idea?

6. Connie Young Yu states, "Angel Island has been called the Ellis Island of the West. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Ellis Island with the Statue of Liberty represents immigrants being welcome. Angel Island meant exclusion. It meant interrogation. It was a place to be feared."

• Do you agree with this statement?
• Do you think the interrogation process on Angel Island was fair? Why or why not?

7. Why was it essential for Ozawa and Thind to argue that they were white instead of another race?

• For context, African/Black Americans had the right to naturalize under the 14th Amendment.

8. How were the rights of Japanese Americans violated during World War II-era?

• Why were only Japanese Americans but not Italian and German Americans not put into camps?

9. Who was the 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team; what was their motto and significance?

10. Asian American veterans claim that the atrocities committed overseas were because "they tell you that the people over there aren't people."

• How do you think they felt about this since, in many of our wars, we fought Asian nations, and they were fighting those of Asian descent?

11. What are examples of how Southeast Asian refugees faced discrimination when they moved to the United States?

• Why were they being treated in this way?

12. Why was defeating Japan a priority for people of Korean, Chinese, and Filipino descent in the United States?