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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 were the names of the secret societies formed to protect Asian members?

2. What was the reaction in Chapter 3, to the special taxes put upon Chinese immigrants?

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

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

5. When did the Indian population begin to grow in Hawaii?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the life of a first generation immigrant like in America?

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

3. Who is Abiko Kyutaro and what did he accomplish?

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

5. What ethnic group does Takaki assert is the fastest growing population in the United States and why?

6. Why did Filipinos immigrate to America?

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

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

9. Who were the only Chinese men allowed to bring their wives to the United States?

10. How did Hawaiian men bring Asian women to Hawaii?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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