Chapter 12 Japanese Americans & Early Asian American Immigration

Question 1

In the 1980’s a series of Congressional Commission hearings took place concerning the Japanese American Concentration Camps. The Commission found wrongdoings on the part of the U.S. Government which resulted in a ___ and ____ to those Japanese American who spent time in the camps.

Answer 1

Presidential apology; economic restitution

Question 2

When ___ began to end the japanese american relocation and dispersement program began. At this time the WRA began to disperse japanese american families tall over the US to make sure that there would not be a concentration on the West Coast.

Answer 2

WWII

Question 3

Early legal Japanese immigration to the US came between:

Answer 3

1880s-1924

Question 4

When Executive Order ___ was signed into law, some Japanese Americans were given as little as 48-72 hours to pack their belongings and move out of their houses.

Answer 4

9066

Question 5

The first group of people who were excluded from immigrating to the United States were from ____

Answer 5

China

Question 6

In WWII of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly evacuated by the military from their homes, __ were American citizens by birth.

Answer 6

2/3

Question 7

The government agency created to deal with the evacuation of Japanese Americans was called: ___

Answer 7

WRA

Question 8

The immigration loophole that allowed some legal but illegal immigration of Chinese to the US after the San Francisco earthquake was called the _______

Answer 8

Paper Son or Slot System.

Question 9

During the ____ the Japanese government was encouraging its citizens to go “West” (Europe and the U.S.) to learn modern ways.

Answer 9

late 1800’s

Question 10

_____ allowed for only “free whites” and “former slaves of african descent” to become Naturalized citizens. Japanese immigrants were legally defined as Mongolian therefore they were Aliens ineligible for citizenship

Answer 10

US Naturalization law

Question 11

Who are Asian Pacific Americans?

Answer 11

Asian-Pacific Islander; A person with origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, or the Pacific Islands. This area includes, China, Japan, Korea, Philippine Republic, and Samoa; and on the Indian Subcontinent includes India, Pakistan, Bangladest, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Sikkim and blutan

Question 12

Asian Pacific Americans are a culturally complex and diverse people early immigration ends in

Answer 12

1964

Question 13

Early Immigration period 1849-1965 there are __ waves

Answer 13

3 Waves; Chinese 1849-1882
Japanese (Korean) 1880-1924
Pilipino 1898-1934

Question 14

Chinese came in for the

Answer 14

gold but were excluded by 1882

Question 15

Japanese were encouraged to come in for the

Answer 15

agricultural fields and hawaiian sugar plantations but were stopped in 1924

Question 16

Pilipino immigrants come in after the japanese are excluded in

Answer 16

1898-1934

Question 17

1882 exclusion act of chinese created a need

Answer 17

for Ca agriculturalist (farmers)

Question 18

december 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor; leads to

Answer 18

Japanese Americans evacuation

Question 19

4 major reasons in the literature for the Japanese Americans evacuation off of the West Coast

Answer 19

Racism, war hysteria, economic greed, military necessity

Question 20

Racism

Answer 20

Historical precedent based on a history of negative prejudice, discrimination, and racism; society couldn’t tell asian people apart

Question 21

Racism; WWII Japanese in US were singled out as an

Answer 21

EVIL race

Question 22

Economic Greed

Answer 22

Estimated 3 billion 1942 dollars lost by the Japanese Americans; lost wages, material possessions, investments

Question 23

Military Necessity

Answer 23

Americans were worried about the surprise attack in Pearl Harbor and were scared it would happen in CA they said since they were not Americans they weren’t loyal

Question 24

Executive Order ___ put Japanese Americans in concentration camps in 1942

Answer 24

9066

Question 25

Executive Order 9066 removed 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry for

Answer 25

military neccessity

Question 26

Discuss the impacts the Evacuation/Concentration Camp experience had on the Japanese Americans.

Answer 26

there was as little as 48-72 hours notice; allowed to take only what they could carry (limit of 2 bags); didn’t know where they were going or how long they would be there

Question 27

With the Evacuation came the question

Answer 27

What do you do with your other belongings you can’t take with you; house, car, business, farm, household goods.

Question 28

Evacuations also meant

Answer 28

curfew for people; bank accounts frozen

Question 29

WRA=

Answer 29

War Relocation Authority

Question 30

Discuss the 4 major reasons for the Japanese American Evacuation/Concentration Camps during WWII

Answer 30

Racism, war hysteria, economic greed, military necessity

Question 31

Discuss the patterns of the 3 waves of early Asian Immigration to the United States and how it impacted the experience of Asian immigrants.

Answer 31

3 Waves; Chinese 1849-1882
Japanese (Korean) 1880-1924
Pilipino 1898-1934

Question 32

1941 WWII breaks out in the

Answer 32

Philippine Islands

Question 33

Service in WWII allowed

Answer 33

Philippines who volunteered for the war to become American citizens

Question 34

The 1924 alien exclusion act excluded philippinoes from coming to America their

Answer 34

service in WWII allowed them to become citizens

Question 35

The US governments used the term summer camp and relocation but

Answer 35

not a summer camp; 10 camps each camp had over 10,000 people; prison camps surrounded by barbed wire