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20th-21st Century
100
The term used to describe various ethnic groups living in one place.
What is melting pot?
100
The political movement to equalize the rights and treatment of African-Americans in the mid-20th century.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
100
1882 Act of Congress that excluded Chinese laborers from migrating for ten years, but permitted the entry of teachers, students, and merchants.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
100
The United States' first president of color.
What is Barack Obama?
200
When people refer to others of another race in a way that they think won't offend them.
What is politically correct?
200
When Native Americans were moved from the east coast into Oklahoma to make room for more European settlers.
What is the Trail of Tears?
200
The crop of Hawaiian plantation owners who imported Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Vietnamese (among others) labors
What is sugar (cane).
200
The first university in the US to have a department devoted to minority studies.
What is UC Berkeley?
300
When people judge others or make decisions based on race.
What is discrimination?
300
What prominent event in history brought Chinese prospectors to California in 1848 to invest in a precious ore?
What is the Gold Rush?
300
City of the oldest and longest continuous running Chinatown in the Western Hemisphere.
Where is San Francisco, California
300
The man that was killed in Detroit when he was mistaken for being Japanese when Japan was rising in the automobile industry.
What is Vincent Chin?
400
A historical way of life that varies from community to community.
What is culture?
400
Where Japanese-Americans were relocated during World War II.
What is the Japanese internment camps?
400
The "Ellis Island of the West"
What is Angel Island
400
The activist group during the Civil Rights movement had an Asian American as one of their founders
What is the Black Panthers?
500
According to the dictionary, the definition of this word is "the state or quality of being different or varied"
What is diversity?
500
A Southeast Asian group that migrated to the US to escape war-torn Laos after the Vietnam War.
What is Hmong refugees?
500
Location of the first recorded Filipino settlement in North America
Where is New Orleans, Lousiana
500
What Asian American group was targeted by hate crimes after 9/11?
What is South Asians (Sikhs)?
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