Key Figures
Immigration
Hardships
Social Movements
Miscellaneous
100
In response to anti-Asian hate, he urged Americans in his speech Composite Nation to not fear Chinese culture.
Who is Frederick Douglas
100
Nearly 25,000 Chinese migrants came to California in 1849 in hopes of gaining wealth from this precious mineral.
What is gold
100
This act was the first immigration law banning immigration based on race
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
100
This advocacy student organization was established at San Francisco State University (SFSU) in 1968 and UC Berkeley in 1969
What is the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF)
100
The Supreme Court Case Plessy V. Ferguson officially established the legal precedent of "Separate but this"
What is Equal
200
In his early 20's, this man was a key figure of the Civil Rights Movement, working alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to combat racism and segregation. Later in his life, he became a US House Rep. in Georgia
Who was John Lewis
200
**Double Jeopardy**
Records from the Virginia Colony in 1635 described the first known Asian in the Americas as this
What is "East Indian"
200
The killing of this unarmed black man in 2020 was a major catalyst of the Black Lives Matter Movements.
Who is Goerge Floyd
200
On March 16, 2021, a gunman killed 8 people, 6 of whom were Asian American in the Atlanta Spa shooting. This was the major social movement that ensued
What was the Stop Asian Hate Movement
200
The era of legalized and enforced racial segregation in the US is known as this era
What is the Jim Crow Era
300
She was a key figure in the founding of the Asian Americans for Action that linked Asian American activism to the Black liberation struggle in 1969
Who is Yuri Kochiyama
300
This act passed in 1965 removed Immigration quotas based on race, officially abolishing race-based immigration law
What was the Immigration & Nationality Act
300
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, President Roosevelt signed an executive order that forced all those of this ancestry/racial group into internment camps.
What is Japanese ancestry
300
Efforts of the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) led to the recognition of this term in 1968
What is Asian American
300
**Double Jeopardy**
This was the first US President to officially recognize Black History Month
Who was Gerald Ford
400
He was a key leader of the founding of the Third World Liberation Front in 1968 at San Francisco State University
Who was Patrick Salaver
400
The final recorded African slave was brought to America in 1859, despite the slave trade being banned in this year
What is 1807 (Within 10 years)
400
**Double Jeopardy**
In 1871, 19 Chinese Americans were massacred in this American by a mob of 500 whites and Latinos in this city on the West Coast
What is Los Angeles
400
**Double Jeopardy**
MLK Jr. was a key figure of the Civil Rights movement, but was assassinated in this year.
What is 1968
400
This act passed in 1943 officially repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
What was the Magnuson Act
500
**Double Jeopardy**
This influential AAPI person helped to found the Detroit Asian Political Alliance (APA) in 1970 and worked along Malcom X in the 1960s.
Grace Lee Boggs
500
This was the year that the first recorded African American was brought to the British Colonies.
What was 1621 (within 10 years)
500
This Supreme Court case held that the exclusion of Chinese Americans from white schools was constitutional.
What was Lum V. Rice
500
The Third World Liberation Front's main objective was for underrepresented communities to have their histories taught and learned. These were the racial-ethnic groups that founded the organization. (Name Three)
What were African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicanos/Chicanas, and Native Americans
500
This historian from Harvard started "Negro History Week" during the 2nd week of February that later turned into Black History Month
Wh was Carter Woodson