Push/Pull Factors
Gender Roles
Court Cases/Legislation
Forms of Resistance
Dominant Paradigms
100

This is a common pull factor across all five Asian immigrant groups. 

Labor Shortage in America

100

This is a vice industry that women participated in, sometimes involuntarily, in order to contribute to their income and send money back.

Prostitution

100

This US immigration law was the first one that excluded an entire group of immigrants on the basis of ethnicity.

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

100

These two tactics of how plantation laborers “resisted” in everyday work. 

Working slowly, Staying on the lookout for the planter/manager, Destroying plantation property (Choose 2)

100

This was the type of labor that led to the stereotypical view of Chinese workers as cheap and exploitable. 

Coolie Labor

200

These are two major pull factors that “pulled” Chinese immigrants to America. 

Gold Rush/Gold Mountain Myth, Labor Shortage in America, Infrastructure Development, Entrepreneurship, Unequal Treaties (Choose 2)

200

This was a method was utilized by both Japanese and Korean immigrant men to accelerate the establishment of families in America

Picture Brides System

200

This court case officially denied the Japanese citizenship on the basis that they were not Caucasian. 

1922 Ozawa v. US

200

This community organization wrote letters to Supreme Court and hired white attorneys to represent Chinese immigrants in court cases. 

Chinese 6 Companies

200

This provided a moral justification for white American intervention in the Philippines and Hawaii by claiming that white Americans could “uplift” colonized peoples by bringing civilization to them. 

White Man’s Burden

300

This is a major push factor that “pushed” Asian Indians, Filipinos, and Koreans to America. 

Colonization (British imperialism in India, Japanese colonization in Korea, US/Spanish colonization in Philippines)

300

These ethnic groups were associated with bachelor societies.

South Asian/Indian, Chinese, and Filipino.

300

This diplomatic agreement effectively stopped  Japanese immigration of laborers and prostitutes, but allowed women and children. 

Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907

300

These are two examples of interethnic labor unions that advocated class solidarity. 

Japanese-Mexican Labor Association, Hawaiian Laborers’ Association

300

This was a concept that propelled the idea that the East was voiceless, subservient and docile, helping Europeans to justify colonization of Asia.  

Orientalism

400

These are two major push factors that “pushed” Japanese immigrants to America. 

Meiji Restoration, Taxation/Landlessness, Threat of Colonization, Irwin Convention, Unequal Treaties (Choose 2)

400

This group was stereotyped as a threat to white purity due to their supposed ability to “corrupt” white women and openness to create interracial relationships.

Filipinos

400

This act outlawed Chinese prostitutes from entering the United States, effectively stopping the immigration of all Chinese women.



Page Act of 1875

400

This ethnic group owned firearms to protect themselves from racial violence at work.

 Filipinos

400

This main ideology helped justify white, Anglo-Saxon Americans expansionism and colonization in Hawaii and Philippines.

Manifest Destiny

500

This is the reason the HSPA recruited Filipino immigrants to Hawaii.

To lessen the growing power/labor resistance of the Japanese plantation laborers.

500

In Hawaii, Asian immigrant men were often delegated to labor such as ________, while Asian immigrant women often had to work _________. 

Agricultural labor; Double duty (household and fieldwork)

500

This court case officially denied Asian Indians citizenship on the basis that their skin was “not white.”

1923 Thind vs. US

500

This was another form of resistance utilized to act as a “voice” for different ethnic groups. 


Ethnic publications/newspapers

500

This was a perspective that Asian American immigrants commonly held about their labor duration in the US, and why they often did not bring their families or create long-established ethnic communities. 

Sojourner Mentality

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