Review Sheet for Exam 1, ICS24/ELIT24 Winter 2010
The exam will be open books and open notes. You will have forty-five minutes to complete the exam.
Questions from Quizzes
Geographical Roots
Know where the following people or their ancestors are from, and be able to identify the approximate location on a world map:
- Lawson Fusao Inada
- Carlos Bulosan
- Janice Mirikitani
- Li-Young Lee
- Lynda Barry
- Helen Kyungsook Daniels
- Kao Kalia Yang
- Daniel Tsang
Also, you should be able to identify on a world map the approximate location of Ban Vinai Refugee Camp and Saigon.
Historical Interpretation
Be able to discuss in an historically informed way the following texts:
Poems 30 and 31 from Island (page 17 of the reader)
Pages 144-145 from America Is In The Heart (page 28 of the reader). Refer to legal history, and in particular anti-miscegenation laws.
Pages 185-186 from The Latehomecomer. Contrast assimilation (the dominant story) and racism.
Historical Timeline
Be prepared to discuss the significance of these dates.
US Expansion Across North America
- 1848 California Gold Rush begins, drawing the first large-scale migration from China to the US
- 1850 Foreign Miners' Tax in California passed, only enforced on Chinese miners
- 1870 Foreign Miners' Tax ruled unconstitutional
- 1870 Federal Naturalization Act that explicitly excludes Chinese eligibility for citizenship
- 1870 California passes a law that denies entry to Chinese and Japanese women
- 1882 US Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act, beginning of large-scale Japanese migration to the US
Imperial Rivalry in Asia and the Pacific
- 1898 Hawai'i annexed to the US
- 1899 Beginning of the Filipino-American War
- 1905 Koreans recruited to work in the US
- 1905 Japan defeats Russia in the Russo-Japanese War, Japan occupies Korea
- 1908 "Gentlemen's Agreement" between Japan and the US, which limits immigration and migration from Japan and Korea to the US. Large-scale Filipino migration and immigration to the US begins.
- 1910 Japan annexes Korea
- 1915 Congressional authorization for "Mounted Inspectors" to patrol borders
The Boom and the Great Depression
- 1922 US Cable Act declares that women who are US citizens who marry men ineligible for citizenship (all Asian men) lose their US citizenship
- 1924 Immigration Act greatly reduces the number of immigrants who could be admitted to the US from Asia. Migration from the Philippines not restricted because the Philippines was a US territory.
- 1924 Formation of US Border Patrol
- 1932 California Congress bars Filipinos from marrying white women (amendment to Roldan v. Los Angeles County)
- 1934 Tydings-McDuffie Act makes the Philippines a "Commonwealth," sets a timeline for independence, and bars all but a handful of Filipinos from entering the US
World War II, US Global Hegemony and the US Civil Rights Movement
- 1941 US enters World War II
- 1942 Japanese internment begins
- 1943 Chinese Exclusion Act repealed
- 1944 War Brides Act passes, allowing Asian women married to US men (primarily military) to enter the US and become citizens
- 1945 World War II ends