AAS 100 Exam # 1 Questions & Answers 2024/2025

AAS 100 Exam # 1 Questions & Answers 2024/2025 "yellow peril" - ANSWERSThe view of Asians as threats to America. Provide reasons why Asian immigration into the United States is not "new," but old. - ANSWERS-In the 16th century, Chinese and Filipinos came here in Manila-Acapulco galleon trade. -In the 18th century, Filipinos to Louisiana bayous. -And continuous Asian immigration to the United States since the early to mid-nineteenth century, beginning with the Chinese. How many Asian ethnic groups made up the early immigration? What are they? - ANSWERS5: Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Indian, Korean Compare the actual numbers of Asian vs. European immigration into the United States. - ANSWERSFrom , was 964,000: 40,000,000. Even in , 910,000 Irish came and 950,000 Germans came. In what region of the United States did most Asians settle? (N, S, E, or W) - ANSWERSW. Three reasons (push factors) why Asian migrants left their homeland. - ANSWERS1) to escape from adverse conditions at home: scarcity of land, indebtedness, heavy taxation, war, dwindling job opportunities or opportunities for advancement 2) countries were under pressure from foreign rule—empires, esp, Western ones, stripped local enemies of their wealth and sought to make them dependent upon the imperial metropole; Japan was sole non-Western empire 3) individual motivations—search for adventure, quest for riches, better opportunities, freedom of religion, to worship freely What were the 4 "pull factors" for Asian immigration? - ANSWERS1) labor recruitment 2) job opportunities in USA