Early Immigration
This mid-1800s event first drew large numbers of Chinese immigrants to the U.S. for mining and agriculture work
What was the California Gold Rush?
This is the year the Chinese Exclusion Act was signed into law
What is 1882?
This is the approximate number of Japanese Americans who served in the U.S. military during WWII.
What is 33,000?
This is the year the first Asian American woman joined the U.S. House of Representatives
What is 1965?
This city is where COVID-19 was first identified in late 2019.
What is Wuhan?
Chinese immigrants made up the majority of the workforce building this massive 1860s infrastructure project
hat was the Transcontinental Railroad?
This is the year the Chinese Exclusion Act was finally repealed
What is 1943?
This December 1941 attack led FDR to order the internment of Japanese Americans.
What was the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This five-year strike against California grape growers was sparked by threatened pay cuts in Sept. 1965
What was the Delano Grape Strike?
This organization tracked the sharp rise in anti-Asian hate crimes starting in 2020.
What is Stop AAPI Hate?
This 1875 law blocked the recruitment of Chinese and Japanese laborers and barred Chinese women from entering the U.S
What was the Page Act (of 1875)?
The Act made doing this — leaving to see relatives in China — extremely difficult
What is visiting family in China (and returning)?
This is the number of U.S. citizens interned during WWII
→What is over 70,000?
LBJ signed this act in October 1965, abolishing the old immigration quota system.
What was the Immigration and Nationality Act?
This is the exact date of the Atlanta spa shootings.
What is March 16, 2021?
Besides mining, this type of work also employed many early Chinese immigrants
What is agriculture?
The Act made obtaining this legal status nearly impossible for Chinese immigrants
What is U.S. citizenship?
This 1946 law stripped Filipino veterans of the military benefits they had been promised.
What was the Rescission Act (of 1946)?
This 1968–1969 strike led to the creation of Ethnic Studies departments.
What was the Third World Liberation (Front) strike?
This is the number of people killed in the Atlanta spa shootings, six of whom were Asian women.
What is 8?
This is the time span the "Early Immigration & Labor" section covers
What is the mid-1800s to the early 1900s?
This is roughly how many years the Act stayed in effect, from signing to repeal
What is about 61 years?
Besides housing, internment camps also included these for the children detained there
What were schools?
This university is where the Third World Liberation strike took place.
What is San Francisco State University?
This 2021 federal law aimed to speed up review of hate crimes.
What was the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act?