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  1. 3. Virus, In 2021 Anti-Asian rhetoric starts garnering media attention, much of which is egged on by Donald Trump and his usage of what term to describe COVID-19.
  2. 5. The first shipload of ______________immigrants arrived in Hawaii to work on the islands’ pineapple and sugar plantations. In the years that followed, economic distress, political turmoil, and famine caused thousands of their families to emigrate.
  3. 6. The first group of Asian origin migrants from the Philippines. They were a part of a Spanish trading party and arrived 33 years before the Plymouth pilgrims.
  4. 9. “first year men,” the first people to make the 4,000 mile voyage from Japan to Hawaii.
  5. 12. Place considered sacred by Native Hawaiians, that US used as a bombing range in the mid 20th century. Beginning in 1976, the Ohana people carried out protests and occupations that eventually returned the land to the Native Hawaiians.
  6. 16. A U.S. Immigration Station opened at ________ Island in San Francisco, CA. The facility enforced policies designed to exclude many Pacific Coast immigrants coming from 80 countries, the majority of them from China.
  7. 18. In which state the Rock Springs Massacre happened in 1985
  8. 19. About 120,000 people of this ethnicity, mostly US citizens, were forcibly removed from their homes during World War II
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  1. 1. The railroad on which 20,000 Chinese immigrants worked, for long hours in dangerous conditions and for 50% less than white workers.
  2. 2. Civil Liberties act, What Act committed to providing individual payments of $20,000 to each surviving Japanese internee and $1.25 million for an education fund in 1998.
  3. 4. Dalip Saund was the first _____ and Asian American to be sworn in as US Representative in 1957.
  4. 7. Apology Bill, What bill stated that the Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve shall be used in perpetuity for the preservation and practice of all rights customarily and traditionally exercised by native Hawaiians in 1993.
  5. 8. The _____ Act of 1875, the first restrictive federal immigration law in the United States, which effectively prohibited the entry of East Asian women, especially Chinese women, into the Unites States, creating the policing of immigrants around sexuality.
  6. 10. Takao __________ filed for United States citizenship under the Naturalization Act of 1906. This act allowed only "free white persons" and "persons of African nativity or persons of African descent" to naturalize.
  7. 11. Gurubai _____ of Mumbai was the first ethnic Indian woman to graduate from Women’s Medical College in Pennsylvania.
  8. 13. The Luce-Celar Act of 1946 provided a quota of 100 _________ to immigrate to US per year, which made citizenship possible for the first time.
  9. 14. The first __________ (place of worship for Sikhs) is established in Stockton, CA.
  10. 15. The ________Act of 1980 eased restrictions on the entry of Southeast Asians to the US after the Vietnam War.
  11. 17. Chin, A week before his wedding who was bludgeoned to death by two white auto workers who reportedly blamed him and the Japanese for their unemployment in 1982?