Site examines the social, political, and economic issues that influenced the first Asian migration to the Americas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Includes guidelines for helping students distinguish truthful, historically accurate facts from commonly held, erroneous assumptions. Requires access to an episode from "Ancestors in the Americas" although much information is available without viewing the video.

Concepts

asian americans

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Additional Tags

coolies, asian american immigration timeline, asian immigrants, asian migration to america, pbs, chinese immigrants

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

• This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information