18. CITIES, IMMIGRANTS, AND THE NATION, 1880

Quiz for Comparative Analysis The Chinese in America

Quiz for Comparative Analysis: The Chinese in America

Document 18.2: Saum Song, Bo, “A Chinese View of the Statue of Liberty,” 1885

Document 18.3: Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 1886

Choose the best answer to the question.

Question 18.5

1. What argument does Saum Song Bo present to justify his opposition to financially supporting the construction of the Statue of Liberty?

He does not like the appearance of the planned statue.

He is protesting the construction of the statue in the harbor.

He will not support the hypocrisy of a statue when he has no liberty.

He does not make enough money as a Chinese immigrant to contribute.

Question 18.6

2. What contemporary legislation does Saum Song Bo point out as being contradictory to the ideals of the Statue of Liberty?

Chinese Exclusion Act

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Pendleton Act

Fifteenth Amendment

Question 18.7

3. When delivering the opinion of the court, on what grounds does Justice Stanley Matthews argue that the rights of Yick Wo and other Chinese laundry owners have been violated?

They were denied the right to vote.

They were denied equal protection under the law.

They were denied a right to a trial by jury.

They were prohibited from entering the country.

Question 18.8

4. How was the treatment of Yick Wo indicative of common perspectives toward Chinese immigrants in the late 1900s?

Americans feared Chinese immigrants as job competition.

Chinese forms of dress were objectionable to many Americans.

It was not until the 20th century that Americans liked Chinese food.

The Chinese were seen as a litigious ethnic group who elicited suspicion.

Question 18.9

5. What can be inferred about life in America for Chinese immigrants in the late nineteenth century based on both of these documents?

The Chinese preferred their homeland to life in America.

Immigrants were more welcomed on the East Coast than on the West Coast.

Americans preferred Chinese employees to Irish employees.

Chinese immigrants faced discrimination and prejudice in the United States.

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