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About This Drill
AP U.S. History — Period 6 (1865–1898) — Drill 28 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Period 6: 1865–1898. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
This AP U.S. History Period 6 drill is based on testimony from the Angel Island Immigration Station (c. 1911). Questions analyze the speaker's confusion as evidence of the immigration enforcement system, the legal framework established by the Chinese Exclusion Act, and the broader context of anti-Chinese immigration restrictions.
Passage
The following is adapted from testimony recorded at the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay, approximately 1911. The speaker is a young man from Guangdong Province, China, attempting to enter the United States by claiming to be the son of a Chinese American merchant.
My father came to this country in 1882 and has been here ever since. He owns a store in Sacramento. I have never been to America before. My mother's name is Wong Shee. We lived in the village of Sun Wui, near Canton. I went to school until I was twelve. My father sent money home each year. I know my father's store is on J Street, near the railroad station. The inspector asked me many questions about the number of windows in our house, the direction the front door faces, the names of all our neighbors. I answered as best I could remember. I do not understand why they think I am lying.
Questions in This Drill
- The speaker's confusion about why 'they think I am lying' most directly reflects which of the following features of the immigration enforcement system he is experiencing?
- The legal framework that made the immigration experience described in this testimony necessary was most directly established by
- A historian using this testimony to study the Chinese American experience at Angel Island would most likely note which of the following limitations of the source?
- The Angel Island immigration experience described in this testimony most directly contrasts with which of the following historical narratives about American immigration?
- The pattern of restrictive immigration enforcement described in this testimony most directly contributed to which of the following developments in Chinese American communities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?