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Timeline: Asian-American History
Asian immigration to America, 1600s to the present
| 1600s |
- Spanish bring Chinese and Filipinos to Mexico.
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| 1763 |
- Filipinos desert Spanish ship in New Orleans, establish first Filipino community in U.S. in Louisiana bayou.
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| 1830s |
- Chinese laborers brought to work in Hawaiian sugar cane fields. Chinese peddlers recorded in New York City.
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| 1848 |
- California gold rush attracts Chinese prospectors.
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| 1850 |
- California imposes tax on foreign miners, targeting Chinese.
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| 1852 |
- Presbyterian mission begins working with Chinese in San Francisco.
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| 1854 |
- Chinese in Hawaii begin to organize. In The People v. Hall, California Supreme Court rules that a Chinese man could not give testimony in court since Chinese were "inferior, and . . . incapable of progress or intellectual development beyond a certain point . . ." Yung Wing graduates from Yale University, becomes first Chinese to graduate from a U.S. college. Commodore Perry signs first commercial treaty with Japan since 1638.
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