Japanese Immigration

By Glades2000

  • Chinese Exclusion Act restricts Chinese immigration.

    This relates to the Japanese in that the Chinese were forbidden from immigrating, so there was more space for the Japanese to farm.

  • Gentleman's Agreement

    This Agreement decreed the Japanese could not move to the U.S.

  • California's Alien Land Law

    This Law prohibited any Japanese form buying land in the state.

  • Executive Order 9066

    This order declared that the U.S. government would "evacuate" Japanese-Americans from the Pacific coast and relocate them to internment camps.

  • Japanese are forced out of their homes.

    They were sent to Interment Camp which is basically jail for the Japanese.

  • Exclution Act

    By the end of the 1940's all restrictions on the Asians aquiring U.S. citizenship are abolished.

  • United States v. Korematsu

    The U.S. goes to court about Japanese Internment.

  • United States repaies Japanese.

    The Redress Act provides $20,000 compensation to survivors of the World War II internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans.

  • Redress Act

    Gives all Japanese American WW2 internment camp survivors $20,000