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Crossing a Continent, Crossing the Pacific
Variant Title:	Ancestors in the Americas: Crossing a Continent, Crossing the Pacific
Series Title:	Asian American History Series ; Ancestors in the Americas Series: Part 3
Content:	Documentary Film
Available From:	Center for Educational Telecommunications
Media Type:	Videocassette
Release Date:	2000
Audience:	Higher Education Secondary Education
Running Time:	Not yet available
Physical Description:	1 videocassette: col., 1/2"
Language:	English
Author:	Produced, Directed, and Written by Loni Ding for PBS
Subject:	Diaspora and Ethnicity History
Subheading:	Emigration and Immigration History, Early Modern (17th-19th Century)
Region:	East Asia East/West Relations Immigration/Diaspora
Country:	China Japan

Chronicles the late 1800's to the 1920's, during which the Transcontinental Railroad was completed, anti-Asian sentiment led to the Exclusion Act, and all of the first major Asian groups arrived, and Asia became America's new frontier. || Part 3 of the Ancestors in the Americas Series || Viewer Guides and related historical documents are available at http://www.cetel.org

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