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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. What organization supported Chinese immigrants and protested their poor treatment?

2. What made Chinese immigrants a threat to the mining industry?

3. What location became the prime meeting spot for Chinese immigrants?

4. When did the first wave of Asian immigration begin?

5. Why does Takaki assert that Asian immigrants opened their own businesses?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Vietnamese immigrants arrive in America and where did they live when they first arrived?

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

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

4. Why did Chinese immigrants settle in California in the 1800s? What law effected this?

5. Explain the term 'paper son.'

6. Why did the sugar plantations treat their workers well? How did they treat them well?

7. What business did William Hoper run? Who did he hire to help run his business?

8. Why did the Korean immigrants not have their own community to live in?

9. During what years did Korean immigrants arrive in the United States and why?

10. Where did Filipinos come from and why were they considered American citizens?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the sugar mills influence Hawaii's economy? Describe how the sugar mills effected the local population and how immigration changed the industry.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the work conditions many immigrants faced. Are they similar tp or different from the working conditions immigrants face today? Why was it difficult for immigrants to change working conditions?

Essay Topic 3

What role did Chinese female immigrants play in Takaki's book? How were women treated and what employment did they find?

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