Part 2 — Answer key

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1. Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month in the United States is officially celebrated in May.
   True
2. If you see the abbreviation "AAPI" in a U.S. context, what does it most commonly stand for?
   Asian American and Pacific Islander
3. What does the "NH" add when the abbreviation expands from AAPI to AANHPI?
   Native Hawaiian
4. The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first significant U.S. federal law to ban immigration based on a specific nationality.
   True
5. In many U.S. history textbooks, which group of Asian workers is most associated with building the western portion of the first transcontinental railroad?
   Chinese laborers
6. Congress first authorized a national "Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week" before it became a month-long observance. In which decade did that first federal week designation occur?
   1970s
7. In current U.S. federal racial data standards, "Asian" and "Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander" are reported as a single combined category.
   False
8. A student researching why Asian immigration to the United States surged after the mid 1960s would focus on which major law?
   Immigration and Nationality Act that ended national-origins quotas
9. United States v. Wong Kim Ark, decided by the Supreme Court in 1898, is best known for affirming which principle?
   Birthright citizenship for most children born in the U.S. to noncitizen parents
10. People born in American Samoa are automatically U.S. citizens at birth, with the same status as people born in any state.
    False
11. During World War II, which group in the United States was forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in War Relocation Authority camps under Executive Order 9066?
    Japanese Americans, including U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry
12. Patsy Takemoto Mink broke new ground in 1964 by becoming the first Asian American woman elected to which body?
    U.S. House of Representatives
13. A Hmong American elder describes leaving Laos with U.S. help after a "secret war" and resettling in the Midwest in the late 1970s. Which larger conflict is this migration most closely tied to?
    Vietnam War
14. Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands are part of which broader Pacific region?
    Micronesia
15. The 1988 Civil Liberties Act included both a formal U.S. government apology and monetary redress payments to surviving Japanese Americans who had been incarcerated during World War II.
    True
16. A student thinks there was "one big law" that completely shut out almost all immigration from Asia in the 1920s. Which law should they actually look up?
    Immigration Act of 1924 that extended bans and quotas to nearly all Asian immigrants
17. You are mapping Asian migrant labor in the early 1900s. Which Asian group was heavily recruited to work on sugar plantations in Hawaiʻi after Chinese labor was restricted?
    Japanese migrants
18. Residents of Guam, a U.S. territory, are U.S. citizens but cannot vote for president in the general election.
    True
19. An Asian American studies class is analyzing the 1982 killing of Vincent Chin in Michigan. Which issue from that case became a rallying point for pan-Asian American activism?
    The attackers received lenient sentences in state court with no jail time
20. A local government office wants to ensure Native Hawaiians are not erased under broad "Asian" labels. Which acronym would most clearly signal their explicit inclusion?
    AANHPI
21. Korematsu v. United States was a Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of Japanese American exclusion and incarceration during World War II, a decision that has since been widely discredited.
    True
22. A Vietnamese American family traces its resettlement story to a U.S. law that created a formal refugee admissions program in the years after the Vietnam War. Which law most directly shaped their path?
    Refugee Act that standardized admissions and resettlement
23. A student researching U.S. empire notices that one Pacific island group has a unique status as a "freely associated state" rather than a territory. Which is an example of a country in free association with the United States?
    Republic of the Marshall Islands
24. Asian American student activists played a central role in the late 1960s Third World Liberation Front strikes that led to the creation of ethnic studies programs at San Francisco State and the University of California, Berkeley.
    True
25. Someone compiling a list of "firsts" notices that a U.S. state once had both a Native Hawaiian governor and an Asian American U.S. senator at the same time. Which state are they looking at?
    Hawaiʻi
26. Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month was always a month-long national observance from the moment Congress first acted on it.
    False
27. A journalist is tracing Asian American electoral breakthroughs. Which city elected Norman Mineta as one of the first Japanese American mayors of a major U.S. city, before he later served in Congress and the Cabinet?
    San Jose
28. In the early 20th century "Asiatic barred zone" maps often appear in immigration history. Which U.S. law created this zone, effectively blocking immigration from large parts of Asia and the Pacific?
    Immigration Act of 1917 that created the Asiatic barred zone
29. A high school class compares island groups in the Pacific. Which one is an example of a Native Hawaiian homeland that became a U.S. state rather than a territory or freely associated state?
    Hawaiʻi
30. You are designing a lesson on Asian American labor history and want to highlight how Filipino and Mexican farmworkers organized together in the 1960s. Which California grape strike is central to this story?
    Delano grape strike
31. An organization describes itself as serving "APIDA" communities. If you decode this acronym, which group is explicitly named that often gets overlooked in broad "Asian" labels?
    Desi Americans of South Asian origin
32. Law students are debating the impact of the "Insular Cases." What key idea from those cases still shapes life in many Pacific territories today?
    The Constitution does not fully apply in unincorporated territories
33. A researcher looking at Asian American media milestones notes that in the 1990s a sitcom starred a Korean American stand-up comic playing a version of herself in a Korean American family, one of the first network comedies centered on an Asian American family. Which show is this?
    All-American Girl
34. In the 1970s, Native Hawaiian activists drew international attention by occupying the island of Kahoʻolawe to protest U.S. military bombing and to assert Indigenous land rights and sovereignty. Which grassroots group led this effort?
    Protect Kahoʻolawe ʻOhana
35. A legal scholar is explaining how citizenship debates in the Pacific are still active today. Which modern federal case challenged birthright citizenship for people born in American Samoa but was rejected by the courts, leaving their noncitizen national status in place?
    Fitisemanu v. United States
36. A researcher comparing census categories notices that people with ancestry in the Marshall Islands, Samoa, or Tonga are officially grouped in a different racial category than people with ancestry in China or India. What is the federal racial category used for most of these island communities?
    Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander