Who was the first Asian American?

Question

Who was the first Asian to receive American citizenship? Yung Wing in 1852?

Answer 1

no you cant be both assian and americkan. the closest thing i can thingk of is jacky chane or maybe jessy jacksen.

Answer 2

Sorry, I don't know. But you should look in Ron Takaki's Strangers From a Different Shore. It's a very useful history of Asian America.

Asians have been coming to America since pre-Colonial times (sometimes as cooks, etc. on European ships), and some even argue that Chinese sailors "discovered" America before Columbus, but the question of citizenship is another matter.

Answer 3

The first Asian-Americans were the nomads who came over across the Bering Strait land bridge, during the Ice Age, who became the ancetors of American Indians. Then, about 498 a.d., the Chinese priest Hwiu Shan spent forty years with the Indians on the west caost of the present-day U.S.

More to the point of your question, the first record of Asian immigrants in modern history is in 1763, when a group of Filipino prisoners jumped overboard from Spanish galleons in New Orleans and escaped by hiding in the bayous. In 1790, the first Asian Indian was recorded living in the U.S., though the web site I checked didn't have his name. The same year, the Naturalization Act was passed limiting citizenship to "free white persons."

The 1840 census recorded eight Chinese residents, and Chinese miners came to California after the gold strike of 1848.
Two years later, California passed a Foreign Miners Tax against Chinese miners. 1854, Yung Wing was the first Chinese to graduate from college in the U.S., from Yale; on the negative side, the Supreme Court, in People v. Hall, forbade Chinese from testifying against whites in court. In 1858, California prohibited the immigration of Chinese and "Mongolians," and Chinese were barred from public schools in California the next year.

On July 7, 1858, 15 years after the first recorded arrival of a Japanese citizen, Hamada Hikozo became the first Japanese to achieve citizenship.

These are a few of the early landmarks of Asian influx into the U.S.--taking the bad as well as the good, as befits and objective historian. Hope it helps.

Answer 4

the history at the time was bad on that, hard to find, maybe you are right

Answer 5

I think it was Hop Sing, the cook from "Bonanza."