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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 does diversity in the work place accomplish according to Chapter 2?

2. After the mining industry turned their back on the Chinese, what industry did they turn to?

3. What valley did the author grow up in?

4. What emotion did the picture brides feel when they met their husbands?

5. Where did Chinese immigrants work in New England?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Chinese immigrants come to work on the Transcontinental Railroad in 1848?

2. What were the effects of the big earthquake in 1906?

3. Why did Filipinos immigrate to America?

4. Why did Chinese immigrants open laundromats?

5. Why did Korean immigrants clash with Japanese immigrants in America.

6. Why did Filipino workers strike and what was the outcome of the strikes?

7. What law did California pass that was aimed at Japanese farmers?

8. Who did The Chinese Six Companies support when China became a communist country?

9. Why did Hawaiian business owners began hiring workers other then Chinese immigrants?

10. What was the ultimate goal of Japanese immigrants when coming to America?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What caused Filipino immigrants to arrive in America? Compare and contrast their experience with one other group of Asian immigrants. What were the Filipinos' experiences in California?

Essay Topic 2

Define the 1910 The Alien Land Law. Who enacted this law effect and why? Why did America choose to enforce this act? What was America threatened with?

Essay Topic 3

Which country colonized Korea and what was Korea's opinion of that colonization? What is the Korean independence movement? How did the colonization of Korea lead to Korean immigration to America?

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