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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year were plans made for the transcontinental railroad?

2. What industry did many Chinese immigrants move to the United States for?

3. What valley did the author grow up in?

4. Why did Hawaiian planters begin to hire nationalities other then Chinese?

5. In what year did the plantations in Hawaii deal with multiple strikes?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Asian Indians tend to dress and how did this lead to racial slurs?

2. What was the purpose of the taxes implemented on mining in the 1850s?

3. Describe the Chinese immigrants' experience with the Central Pacific Railroad.

4. What did the McCarran-Watter Act declare?

5. What are blood unions and what did they later become?

6. In what neighborhoods did Korean immigrants live in?

7. How did the Japanese become the largest voting block in Hawaii?

8. Define the Tongs and the Fongs.

9. How were Japanese immigrants similar and different then Chinese immigrants?

10. How did Americans react to Filipino immigration?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Abiko Kyutaro and the Yamato Colony? How did this man have an impact on Asian Immigration? How did the American government try to stop his colony? Did they succeed?

Essay Topic 2

The gold rush caused many Chinese immigrants to move to California. Described the immigrants experience with the gold mining industry and America's attempts to stop immigrants from participating.

Essay Topic 3

Why did Asian immigrants feel the need to strike? What conditions were they fighting for? Did any of their strikes succeed? Why did so many strikes fail?

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