AADPI Month History
This month is AADPI heritage month.
What is May?
This is the largest continent, covering 17.2 million square miles.
What is Asia?
This Asian American is an American civil rights activist who was born in San Pedro, California
Who is Yuri Kochiyama?
This is what AADPI stands for.
What is Asian American Desi Pacific Islander?
This is the number of states which currently require students to learn about Asian American history
What is 13?
This is the region of Asia which includes China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.
What is East Asia?
This Asian American was an journalist/author and was a activist for Asian Americans as well as the LGBTQ community.
Who was Helen Zai?
The Western part of the transcontinental railroad, completed in May 1869, was primarily built by this group of people.
Who were Chinese Immigrant rail workers?
This President changed the name of the month to what it is today: Asian American Pacific Islander Month (although still sometimes referred to as AADPI month)
Who is President Barack Obama?
This is the region of Asia which includes the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, etc.
What is Southeast Asia?
These two people coined the term "Asian American" and founded the Asian American Political Alliance
Who are Yuji Ichoika and Emma Gee?
This historic event happened in May 1943.
What is the first Japanese immigrant came to the United States?
In this year, Asian American Heritage Week was extended to be the entire month of May.
What is 1990?
This is the region of Asia which includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, etc.
What is South Asia (Desi)?
This person became the first woman and AADPI Vice President of the United States in 2021.
Who is Kamala Harris?
As of 2024, these are the largest Asian groups in the U.S. Name at least 3!
Who are Chinese, Indian, Filipino, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese Americans?
In this year, Asian American Heritage week was established.
What is 1977?
This is the region of Asia which includes Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
This native group of people are included when we say Pacific Islanders.
Who are native Hawaiians?
Share one thing you learned about AADPI people and/or history today!
Any relevant answer gets points.