Week 11 Quiz

What did the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 do?

Select one.

• It ended all immigration to the United States from every country for ten years.
• It barred Chinese laborers for ten years and then expired for good in 1892.
• It barred Chinese laborers' entry and Chinese naturalization, and lasted until its 1943 repeal.
• It required every Chinese immigrant already living in the country to naturalize within ten years or leave.

The Angel Island Immigration Station opened in San Francisco Bay in which year, and what did detainees leave on its barracks walls?

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• 1882; a list of the station's rules painted by officials
• 1924; the signatures of every person admitted
• 1942; maps of the camps they were sent to
• 1910; poems carved into the walls

What did the Supreme Court decide in Ozawa v. United States (1922) and United States v. Thind (1923)?

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• It held that both men were citizens by birth because they were born in the United States.
• It denied naturalization to a man born in Japan and a man born in India under the "white person" rule.
• It upheld the 1924 law that completely excluded new immigrants from Asia.
• It upheld the order used to remove people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast.

Which statement describes Executive Order 9066 (1942)?

Select one.

• A law passed by both houses of Congress that set new national-origins quotas for immigrants from Asia.
• An order used to detain only enemy noncitizens, with citizens left untouched.
• A Supreme Court decision that upheld the exclusion of people of Japanese ancestry.
• A presidential order used to remove and incarcerate people of Japanese ancestry, most of them citizens.

Why does this course say "incarceration" rather than "internment" for the Second World War imprisonment of Japanese Americans?

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• Because internment is a newer word that the government at the time never used in any of its own records.
• Because incarceration refers only to prisons, and the camps held no guards.
• Because internment means detaining enemy noncitizens in the law of war, and most people held were citizens.
• Because the two words mean the same thing in law, and the course prefers the shorter one.

Which statement about Korematsu v. United States (1944) and what followed is accurate?

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• The Court upheld the exclusion order by a 6–3 vote, and in 1983 a federal judge overturned Fred Korematsu's conviction.
• The Court struck down the exclusion order by a 6–3 vote, and Korematsu was never convicted.
• The Court upheld the order, and in 1983 the Supreme Court reversed its own 1944 decision.
• Congress overturned the decision in 1983 by passing a law that cleared Korematsu's name.

What did the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 provide?

Select one.

• A payment to each family equal to the value of the property it lost, with no apology.
• An apology and a payment of 20,000 dollars to each surviving person who had been incarcerated.
• An apology only, because the law set aside no money for payments.
• A payment of 10,000 dollars to each family, whether or not anyone in it had survived.

The archive's excerpt E7 (illustrative) comes from a retired teacher whose parents were teenagers when the order came, both born in this country, and who later each received a letter of apology and a payment. Which law or event is E7 tied to?

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• Executive Order 9066 (1942) and the Civil Liberties Act of 1988
• The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and its repeal in 1943
• Ozawa v. United States (1922) and the naturalization law of 1790
• The Angel Island Immigration Station and its closing in 1940

In United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), the Supreme Court held that a man born in San Francisco to Chinese parents was a citizen by birth. Which part of the Constitution did the Court read?

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• The 13th Amendment (1865), which abolished slavery
• The 15th Amendment (1870), which barred denying the vote on account of race
• The 14th Amendment's citizenship clause (1868)
• The 1790 naturalization law's "free white person" rule

The 14th Amendment's citizenship clause (1868) was ratified after which Supreme Court decision had held that a Black person whose ancestors were brought to the country and sold as slaves was not a citizen?

Select one.

• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
• Korematsu v. United States (1944)
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)