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14th Amendment
This act declared that the children of Japanese immigrants are citizens. -
Expatriation Act
The Expatriation Act declared that an American woman who married a foreign national lwould lose her American citizenshiip. This meant that all American women who married Japanese men belonged to no country. -
California's Alien Land Law
California's Alien Land Law prohibited "aliens ineligible for citizenship" (Chinese and Japanese) from owning property in the state. It provided the model for similar acts in other states. -
Oriental Exclusion Act
The Oriental Exclusion Act prohibited most immigration from Asia, including foreign-born wives and children of U.S. citizens of Chinese ancestry. It effects the Japanese because they were allowed to come to America. -
The Gentlemen's Agreement
Under this Act, only women from Japan, not men, were able to come to America. -
The Alien and Sedition Act
This act affected Japanese-Americans because they were able to become citizens after 14 years of living in America. -
The Alien Registration Act
This act affected Japanese-Americans because aliens were required to be fingerprinted, thus equating aliens with criminals. -
Internment Act
People of Japanese descent living in America were required to relocate to internment camps. This act violated the rights of Japanese-Americans under the Fourteenth Amendment -
Executive Order 9066
Executive Order 9066 authorized the military to relocate 112,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in Pacific coastal states to ten internment camps.
