Chapter 9

Question 1

Alien Land Act

Answer 1

A bill passed by the California Legislature in 1913 declaring that aliens who were ineligible for citizenship ( only immigrants from Asia) were also ineligible to own land.

Question 2

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 2

Passed in 1882 by the U.S Congress, it banned all immigration from China

Question 3

Detention Centers

Answer 3

Camps where the U.S gov forced many Japanese Americans primarily living on the west coast to live during WWII for fear that they would become spies for japan. Aka relocation camps

Question 4

Huiguan

Answer 4

Associations in Chinese American society based on the region of China from which an individual or her family fame. They performed social and welfare functions

Question 5

Issei

Answer 5

First generation immigrants from Japan

Question 6

Nisei

Answer 6

Second generation from Japan

Question 7

Sansei

Answer 7

Third generation Japanese Americans

Question 8

Tongs

Answer 8

Secret societies in Chinatowns that sometimes fought with each other and with other organizations over control of resources

Question 9

Yonsei

Answer 9

Fourth generation Japanese Americans

Question 10

What minority group are often viewed as model minorities

Answer 10

Asian American and Pacific Islander

Question 11

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have the same cultures

Answer 11

False- they have similarities

Question 12

What are the similarities between Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

Answer 12

Asian cultures tend to stress group over individual, stress sensitivity to the opinions and judgements of others, traditional Asian cultures were male dominated

Question 13

What is ethnocentrism based on

Answer 13

Racial, cultural and language differences

Question 14

What did the economic contact situation of Chinese Americans cause

Answer 14

Increased Anglo migration and transformed Chinese labor into a threat to the dominant group