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