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Issei
This is what the first Japanese people were known as and it mean the first generation or roughly translates to it. They started working in sugarcane fields in Hawaii -
Japanese population in the US
The Gentlemen's Agreement was made to try and reduce the population of the Japanese in California and the US however it failed and more came, Japanese women were seen as the picture brides and hence many new Japanese Americans were born as well as those immigrating to the US. This however also came with consequences Anti-Japanese groups became a thing -
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Gentlemen's Agreement
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California Alien Land law
This law prevented Issei from owning land. -
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Immigration Act
This significantly reduced immigration from Japan until 1952 where 100 immigrants per year were allowed in. -
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Nesei
These were second generation Japanese kids that were born in America and spoke English. However after the attack on pearl harbor life would become hard due to the fact that people believed that a saboteurs may be among the people living next door to them -
Order "66" 9066
This is when the camps began for the Japanese people in America -
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