Concepts, Themes, and Events
This othering term was primarily used to describe indigenous peoples of South and Southeast Asia, and the Americas.
What is "indio?"
This city has been described as the "East Coast of Oceania."
Where is Los Angeles?
"I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of War...to prescribe military areas in such places and of such extent as he or the appropriate Military Commander may determine, from which any or all persons may be excluded, and with respect to which, the right of any person to enter, remain in, or leave shall be subject to whatever restrictions the Secretary of War...may impose in his discretion."
What is Executive Order 9066?
The term "noble savage" was coined by this European philosopher.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
This activist ran for a seat on the Los Angeles City Council in 1973.
Who is George Takei?
This phenomenon replaces the stereotype of the passive Oriental with the stereotype of the successful Asian American.
What is the model minority myth?
The Spanish American War originally began with a war of independence fought by which nation?
"The coming of Chinese laborers to the United States be, and the same is hereby, suspended, and during such suspension it shall not be lawful for any Chinese laborer to come, or having so come after the expiration of said ninety days to remain within the United States."
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
This Chuukese navigator successfully sailed from Hawaii to New Guinea with Ben Finney in 1976.
Who is Mau Piailug?
This movement asserted that US capitalism and democracy were false ideas of self-determination.
What is the Asian American Movement of the 1960s-70s?
This largely Confucion ethic dictates patriarchal, and feudal relationships of gender, age, and hierarchy.
What is filial piety?
The League of Nations Class C mandates granted control of this nation to New Zealand in 1920.
What is Samoa?
"That it shall and may be lawful for the President of the United States to cause so much of any territory belonging to the United States...and to which the Indian title has been extinguished... for the reception of such tribes or nations of Indians as may choose to exchange the lands where they now reside, and remove there."
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
This Marshallese activist and nuclear fallout survivor was just seven years old at the time of the Bravo test on the Bikini Atoll.
Who is Lijon Eknilang?
This church's apology resolution of 1993 acknowledged Asian American complicity in the annexation of Hawaii.
Who are the United Church of Christ?
This term popularized by anthropologists in the 1960s theorized a common ancient history between Southeast Asians and Pacific Islanders.
What is the Austronesian thesis?
The US gained political and territorial control of these three nations from Spain at the end of the war through a $20 million USD purchase.
What are Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico?
"And, whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such State shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government."
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
This naval officer who forced the opening of Japanese ports to American trade shares a name with a lead actor from the hit show Friends.
Who is Commodore Matthew Perry?
Filipino datu (chief) Lapu Lapu killed this explorer in 1521, marking one of the first major acts of Filipino resistance to Western colonization.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This division of lands introduced the foreign concept of land ownership in Hawaii in 1848.
What is The Great Māhele?
These two cities are the easternmost and westernmost points of the Manila Galleon Trade Route.
Where are Acapulco, Mexico and Manila, Philippines?
"The Island of Puerto Rico is a territory belonging to the US but not a part of the US if possessions are inhabited by alien races ... .the administration of government and justice according to Anglo-Saxon principle may be impossible.”
What is Downes v. Bidwell (1901)?
This shogunate founder established a military government in Japan between 1603 and 1868.
Who is Tokugawa Ieyasu?
This group of Japanese internees were forcibly relocated to Tule Lake in the winter of 1943 due to their responses to a loyalty questionnaire.
Who are the no-no's?