Discrimination and Laws
Unfair biases that have given Asians a disadvantage in America.
Answer: What is racism/discrimination?
The city in America with the largest percentage of Asian Americans
Answer: What is San Fransisco?
The part of San Fransisco where the daughters lived when they were children.
Answer: What is Chinatown?
A part of San Fransisco where Chinese Americans formed together to work and live
Answer: What is Chinatown?
Many Chinese Americans were a major force in building this part of transportation
Answer: What are railroad tracks?
A law enacted in 1882, which stopped Chinese labor immigration to the U.S.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This immigration station was sometimes called the “Ellis Island of the West.” and was where a lot of Chinese immigrants entered the United States
Answer: What is Angel Island?
A name of an actual street in Chinatown that is a characters name in the book
Answer: What is Waverly place?
A cultural celebration that fills Chinatown with parades and dragons each year.
Answer: What is Lunar New Year?
Many Chinese Americans worked in these to find valuable earth materials
Answer: What are the Gold Mines?
A discriminatory law that deemed it a privilege to breathe air, making many Chinese immigrants having to pay a fee for not having a certain amount of air per person.
What was the Cubic Air Ordnance?
An event that attracted many Chinese immigrants to California looking for jobs
Answer: What was the California Gold Rush?
Cultural festivals help promote this in communities.
Answer: What is diversity/cultural awareness?
The Chinese language spoken by the majority of Chinese Americans in California
Answer: What is Cantonese?
Shops, which were primarily ran by Chinese Americans, provided a service vital to many, however many owners faced discriminatory laws.
Answer: What are laundry buisnesses?
A law that targeted a large portion of Chinese buisness owners, using the exuse of fire saftey
Answer: What was the Laundry Legislation
San Fransisco carried this role in the journey of most Asians to the United States
Answer: What is the main port of entry for Asian Americans into the United States?
Many Chinese immigrants were forced to do this when they came to America, such as Ying-Ying St. Clair in the Joy Luck Club
What is Assimilation
This ability helped Chinese Americans push through discrimination and form communities together.
Answer: What is resilience/ hidden strength
Asian Americans often took harder or less paying jobs than the rest of the population because of these situations
Answer: What effects did financial pressures, discrimation and unequal privlages have on Asian Americans?
Chinese Immagrants were not able to gain citizenship before this year
Answer: What was 1943
The amount of Chinese immagrants in the mid 1800s
What is 2.5 million?
Groups of people that help each other in times of need, which were a big help for Suyan after she immigrated into the US during the war.
What are community support organisations?
The regions most Chinese Americans in San Fransisco are from
Answer: What are the Guangdong and Hong Kong regions of China
These court cases had a vital role in shaping immigrant rights in the United States.
What is the impact of the cases of Yick V Hopkins and Wong Kim Ark v United States?