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02 Early Migration and Settlement Online Quiz Questions

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20 questions

True or false

1 point

True or false: Chinese arrivals in North America before the Gold Rush were relatively few compared with the larger migration that followed in the mid-nineteenth century.

A
True
B
False

Choose one

1 point

What happened to some Chinese contract laborers in Hawaiʻi after their plantation contracts ended?

A
They were all required to return to China when their contracts ended.
B
Some stayed and moved into farming, trade, and other work.
C
They all moved to California to work on the transcontinental railroad.
D
They were prohibited from working outside sugar plantations.

Fill in the blank

1 point

In the order named in the material, the two Filipino fishing communities in coastal Louisiana were and .

Choose one

1 point

How did early nineteenth-century trade between the United States and China contribute to Chinese presence in North America before the Gold Rush?

A
It created a demand for Chinese miners in California before the Gold Rush.
B
It led the United States to recruit Chinese workers for Hawaiʻi sugar plantations.
C
It created work for sailors and connected Chinese goods with American merchants and ports.
D
It established the Central Pacific Railroad's route through China.

Written response

1 point

Many Chinese migrants who came to California during the Gold Rush were from which province in southern China?

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1 point

Chinese laborers built the western section of the transcontinental railroad through the .

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1 point

Which discriminatory measure did California impose before Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act?

A
A tax on all people who entered California through a port.
B
A tax targeting Chinese miners.
C
A fee paid by anyone who worked in agriculture.
D
A tax on merchants selling tea and porcelain.

True or false

1 point

True or false: Chinese neighborhoods in California formed only because residents shared language and customs, not because many white-owned workplaces excluded them.

A
True
B
False

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1 point

As discriminatory taxes and violence made mining increasingly difficult, which other occupations did Chinese workers pursue? Select all correct choices.

A
Agriculture
B
Shipbuilding in the Gulf of Mexico
C
Fishing
D
Government service in California
E
Laundries

Written response

1 point

In what year did Congress pass the Chinese Exclusion Act, suspending immigration by Chinese laborers?

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1 point

What kinds of support could Chinese community associations and neighborhoods provide to immigrants? Select all correct choices.

A
Help finding work and housing
B
Access to familiar foods and places of worship
C
Guaranteed legal equality in white-owned workplaces
D
News from home
E
Automatic exemption from discriminatory restrictions

Choose one

1 point

What role did Honolulu’s Chinatown come to play in the community?

A
It became a government center that administered plantation contracts.
B
It served only as a temporary camp for newly arrived laborers.
C
It grew into a commercial and social center for immigrants and the wider community.
D
It replaced farming as the only occupation available to Chinese immigrants.

Open ended

1 point

Explain how trade or labor demand shaped early Asian migration, and how discrimination affected migrants’ experiences and community-building. Use at least two examples from different settings or groups.

Written response

1 point

A timeline of Chinese contract labor on Hawaiʻi’s sugar plantations should mark the workers’ arrival in what year?

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1 point

Which description correctly places Hawaiʻi in its political context when Chinese contract laborers arrived on its sugar plantations in 1852?

A
It was already a U.S. territory.
B
It was an independent kingdom.
C
It was part of California.
D
It was a Spanish colony.

Written response

1 point

In which region of China is Guangdong province, from which many Chinese Gold Rush migrants came?

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1 point

Which conclusion best explains how some Chinese people reached North America before the California Gold Rush?

A
They arrived only after the Gold Rush created demand for mine workers.
B
They came primarily through overland routes from Europe.
C
Maritime trade routes brought some Chinese sailors and traders to North America before the Gold Rush.
D
They arrived as contract laborers for Hawaiʻi’s sugar plantations.

Choose one

1 point

In what year did Chinese contract laborers arrive on sugar plantations in Hawaiʻi?

A
1848
B
1852
C
1860
D
1882

True or false

1 point

True or false: Federal restrictions on Chinese immigration began before California imposed discriminatory taxes on Chinese miners.

A
True
B
False

Choose one

1 point

Which conclusion best explains how Filipino fishing communities could develop in coastal Louisiana by the nineteenth century?

A
Filipino settlement in the United States began only with migration to the West Coast.
B
Pacific travel on Spanish ships was one route through which Filipinos reached the Gulf South.
C
Filipino seafarers came to Louisiana as workers on the Central Pacific Railroad.
D
Filipino fishing settlements developed in California’s mining towns.