Chinese immigration

Question 1

Why are there no Chinese American faces in the photograph of the completion of the transcontinental railroad?

Accepted Answer

It is unclear

Question 2

What ~percentage of the labor on the western section of the transcontinental railroad was made up of Chinese men?

Accepted Answer

89

Question 3

When did anti-Chinese discrimination start in the United States?

Accepted Answer

more than 100 years ago

Question 4

Every how many miles of railroad tracks laid down did a Chinese worker die?

Accepted Answer

two

Question 5

Attack on Chinese in Oregon in 1877

Accepted Answer

Health Canyon Massacre

Question 6

What industries did Chinese immigrants establish in the United States during the late 1800s?

Accepted Answer

Hand laundries and Chinese restaurants

Question 7

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882:

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 8

After the completion of the railroad, most Chinese immigrants found work in land reclamation, irrigation, and

Accepted Answer

agriculture

Question 9

What is one reason why the important role of Chinese immigrants in building America has been obscured?

Accepted Answer

A lack of information and education

Question 10

After the Chinese exclusion act ended in 1943, how many Chinese were allowed to immigrate per year?

Accepted Answer

105

Question 11

What were Chinatowns in the United States?

Accepted Answer

Safe zones for Chinese to live and make a living in a time of fear

Question 12

There were anti-Chinese mass meetings held in ________________

Accepted Answer

Local Town Halls

Question 13

Of the approx. 10,000 Chinese who built the Transcontinental Railroad, how many died working on the railroad?

Accepted Answer

approximately 1000 (10%)

Question 14

Why was the Chinese Exclusion Act ended?

Accepted Answer

Japan, at war with the US, used the exclusion act in anti-US propaganda

Question 15

The Rock Springs Massacre took place in Detrot in 1971

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

What act finally did away with national origin as a reason to limit immigration?

Accepted Answer

The National Immigration Act of 1965

Question 17

What drew the first Chinese immigrants to America?

Accepted Answer

The gold rush

Question 18

The transcontinental railroad was built in the

Accepted Answer

1860s

Question 19

Why were Chinese immigrants increasingly seen as a threat as their numbers grew?

Accepted Answer

They were visibly different and had different customs

Question 20

a violent attack on Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles

Accepted Answer

Chinese Massacre of 1871

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