Chinese Immigration
The nickname given to California by Chinese immigrants during the gold rush.
What is Gold Mountain?
The body of water where the Angel Island Immigration Station was located.
What is San Francisco Bay?
The group of immigrants who came from the north and were called the "Chinese of the Eastern States".
Who are the French Canadians?
The 1942 executive order that allowed for the removal of residents deemed a threat to security.
What is Executive Order 9066?
The primary argument made by Fred Korematsu in his Supreme Court case.
What is that Japanese American citizens were entitled to the same constitutional rights as all citizens?
The term used for the "back-breaking" field work Chinese immigrants were willing to do.
What is "stoop labor"?
The nickname for Angel Island because it was the West Coast equivalent of a famous New York site.
What is the "Ellis Island of the West"?
The country that became the main source of low-wage agricultural labor after Asian immigration was restricted.
What is Mexico?
The official government term for a center used to confine people relocated for national security reasons.
What is an internment camp?
Two ways internees made their living quarters more bearable in the camps.
What is building furniture from scrap lumber and growing vegetables? (Other options: setting up schools/libraries/hospitals)
This 1882 law prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Detainees used this method to express their misery and determination on the barracks walls.
What is carving poems?
Most French Canadian immigrants settled in this U.S. region.
What is New England?
These three nationalities were declared "enemy aliens" by President Roosevelt.
Who are Germans, Italians, and Japanese nationals?
The year by which all internees were officially free to leave the camps.
What is 1945? (The government began releasing people in 1944, and all were free within the next year)
The specific reason many businesses preferred to hire Chinese workers in the 1800s.
What is because they were willing to work for less money?
The percentage of Chinese immigrants at Angel Island who were eventually sent back to China.
What is 10 percent?
This system involved arranged marriages between Japanese men in the U.S. and women in Japan using photographs.
What is the picture-bride system?
The specific reason many "enemy aliens" were required to turn in shortwave radios.
What is because they might be used to send information to the enemy?
Two specific groups of people who were allowed to leave the internment camps as early as 1942.
Who are farm workers and college students?
The city where an anti-Chinese riot broke out in 1880, as shown in historical engravings.
What is Denver?
Unlike Ellis Island, Angel Island applicants were often detained for this amount of time.
What is weeks, months, or even years?
This 1907-1908 "Agreement" saw Japan pledge to stop the emigration of its laborers to the U.S..
What is the Gentlemen's Agreement?
The reason Japanese Americans faced more discrimination than German or Italian "enemy aliens".
What is because they were nonwhite/non-European and less assimilated/socially isolated?
The name of the all-volunteer Japanese American unit that became famous for its bravery in battle.
What is the 442nd Regimental Combat Team?