Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
This is the month Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is celebrated.
What is May? The month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. The majority of the workers who laid the tracks were Chinese immigrants.
Who is Suni Lee?
This senator became the first Korean-American in the Senate and first Asian-American senator from New Jersey.
Who is Andy Kim?
This group makes up the largest portion of the Asian population in the United States.
Who are Chinese Americans?
This president dissolved the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, an office created in June 1999.
Who is President Donald Trump?
Which president expanded Asian Pacific American Heritage Month to a month long celebration? A. President George HW Bush in 1990 B. President Barack Obama in 2010 C. President Jimmy Carter in 1978
Who is President George H.W. Bush?
This neurosurgeon and medical reporter has won multiple Peabody and Emmy awards for this work as CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent.
Who is Dr. Sanjay Gupta?
This politician is the highest-ranking Asian-American official in U.S. history.
Who is former Vice President Kamala Harris?
This state has the largest Asian population of any state.
What is California?
This president signed Executive Order 9066, an order which forced approximately 120,000 Japanese-Americans into internment camps.
Who President Franklin Roosevelt?
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month celebrated the arrival of the first group of immigrants from this country.
What is Japan. May is the month when the first Japanese immigrants arrived in the U.S. in 1843.
This athlete became the first Asian-American to win the U.S. Amateur Championship (golf).
Who is Tiger Woods?
This congresswoman was the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress.
Who is former Representative Patsy Mink?
This state is the only state where the majority of the population is Asian.
What is Hawaii?
This law banned Chinese immigration and prohibited Chinese immigrants from becoming naturalized U.S. citizens.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This president renamed "Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month" to "Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Month."
Who is President Joe Biden?
In 2021, this actor became the first Asian-American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Who is Steven Yeun?
This senator was one of the longest-serving senators in U.S. history, as well as the first Japanese-American to serve in U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
Who is former Senator Daniel Inouye?
Asian Americans make up this percentage of the U.S. population:
a. 10%
b. 7%
c. 20%
What is 7%?
This law prevented Chinese women from immigrating to the United States.
What is the Page Act of 1875?
At the age of 22, this architect and designer designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Who is Maya Lin?
This politician became the first Asian-American elected to Congress.
Who is former Representative Dalip Singh Saund?
The "Asian" category represents ancestry from this many countries:
a. 17
b. 10
c. 21
What is 21 countries?
This Supreme Court case established birthright citizenship for all persons born in the United States.
What is United States v. Wong Kim Ark?