Asian Pacific American Heritage

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Across
  1. 4. Became the first American of Asian descent to play in the NBA,
  2. 7. Type of organization found among Chinese immigrants living in the U.S.
  3. 8. First Filipino settlement in the U.S. in southeast Louisiana.
  4. 9. First Asian American to run for president in 1964.
  5. 11. Passed in 1882 to ban the immigration of laborers from China to the U.S.
  6. 12. In the San Francisco Bay; served as a major station for Chinese and Japanese immigrants between 1910 and 1940.
  7. 13. And Silk Farm Colony was the first permanent Japanese settlement.
  8. 14. Group from the Philippines who arrived in California in 1587.
Down
  1. 1. Hired thousands of Asian-Americans to work on the transcontinental railroad.
  2. 2. Founded the Friendship Society in 1903.
  3. 3. First Asian to be elected into Congress in California.
  4. 5. Co-winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for physics and was sworn in as the U.S. Secretary of Energy in 2009.
  5. 6. First Asian American to be crowned Miss America in 2000.
  6. 10. Chinese arrived here in large numbers in the 1850s and 1860s.