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2009, Joseph Cao, a Republican, is the first Vietnamese American and person born in Vietnam elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, from Louisiana's 2nd congressional district; he was defeated for reelection in 2010. 2009, Judy Chu is the first Chinese American woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
Mar 22, 2022 · Rep. Dalip Saund of California became the first Asian-American, first Indian American and first Sikh to serve in Congress in 1957.
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Most people think of Asians as recent immigrants to the Americas, but the first Asians--Filipino sailors--settled in the bayous of Louisiana a decade before the Revolutionary War. Asians have been ...
1790. - First recorded arrival of Asian Indians in the United States. 1800 - 1849. 1830s. - Chinese "sugar masters" working in Hawaii; Chinese sailors and peddlers in New York. 1844. - U.S. and China sign first treaty. 1848. - Gold discovered in California. Chinese miners begin to arrive. 1842-52.
Jun 9, 2022 · Richard White, The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 520. Erika Lee, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States (New York: Basic Books, 2019), 78. Chang, Ghosts of Gold Mountain, 218–219.
United States - Colonization, Revolution, Constitution: When Columbus arrived, he found the New World inhabited by peoples who in all likelihood had originally come from the continent of Asia. Probably these first inhabitants had arrived 20,000 to 35,000 years before in a series of migrations from Asia to North America by way of the Bering Strait.
May 7, 2021 · Our briefer today is Dr. Madeline Hsu, Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, who will provide an overview of the breadth and depth of Asian American contributions to U.S. history and culture as well as strategies to counter Asian American discrimination and harassment in the wake of the COVID-19 ...
