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*Some Filipino immigrants arrived in the United States as early as the mid-1700s, but most immigrants came after 1900. | *Some Filipino immigrants arrived in the United States as early as the mid-1700s, but most immigrants came after 1900. | ||
*Changes in U.S. agricultural techniques on the West Coast and in Hawaii created a high demand for labor. While persons from many countries were recruited to work in '''Hawaiian sugar cane plantations''', Filipinos were the best source of labor because the Philippines was under U.S. administration for the first few decades of the twentieth-century. | *Changes in U.S. agricultural techniques on the West Coast and in Hawaii created a high demand for labor. While persons from many countries were recruited to work in '''Hawaiian sugar cane plantations''', Filipinos were the best source of labor because the Philippines was under U.S. administration for the first few decades of the twentieth-century. | ||
*Between 1900 and 1930, over 63,000 Filipinos immigrated to Hawaii and over 45,000 Filipinos immigrated to the mainland. | *Between 1900 and 1930, over 63,000 Filipinos immigrated to Hawaii and over 45,000 Filipinos immigrated to the mainland. | ||
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