Intolerance Escalator
This is an oversimplified belief about a group.
What is a stereotype?
This 1882 law banned immigration from China.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This group was targeted by the first major U.S. law banning a specific nationality.
Who are Chinese Americans?
Chinese immigrants helped build this railroad.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This term means reasons people leave a country.
What are push factors?
This is when someone has negative feelings toward a group.
What is prejudice?
This order sent Japanese Americans to internment camps.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This group was imprisoned during WWII, despite being U.S. citizens.
Who are Japanese Americans?
Japanese immigrants often worked in this industry.
What is farming/agriculture?
What are pull factors?
This is unfair treatment in jobs, housing, or school.
What is discrimination?
This 1965 law opened immigration from many Asian countries.
What is the Immigration & Nationality Act?
This group's homeland was taken by the U.S. following the Spanish-American War.
Who are Filipino Americans?
Many Filipino laborers worked in these two areas of labor.
What are farms and canneries?
Many AAPI groups experienced this pattern: fear leading to unfair treatment.
What is intolerance/discrimination?
This is the highest level of the escalator, considering specifically when laws target groups. (Hint: It was not something explicitly stated in class this unit, but has been discussed constantly throughout the semester.)
What is systemic oppression?
This law helped refugees from wars, including Cambodians.
What is the Refugee Act of 1980?
Many of this community's members arrived after genocide in Southeast Asia.
Who are Cambodian Americans?
Cambodian refugees often came to the U.S. because of war in this region.
What is Southeast Asia?
Name one way AAPI groups showed resilience.
Answers up to teacher discretion. Correct answers may include: built communities, protested, preserved culture, organized, etc.
Provide one real example of intolerance from the AAPI unit.
Answers up to teacher discretion. Correct answers may include Executive Order 9066, the Chinese Exclusion Act, etc.)
This agreement made American Samoa a U.S. territory.
What are the Deeds of Cession?
This group is indigenous to islands annexed by the U.S. in 1898.
Who are Native Hawaiians?
Many Indian/Desi immigrants arrived after 1965 because of jobs in this area.
What are skilled professions/technology/medicine/engineering?
How did laws shape AAPI lives in the U.S.?
Answers up to teacher discretion. Correct answers will be evidence-based responses.