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14th Amendment
The children of Japanese immigrants are citizens. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Since Chinese couldn't immigrate anymore, railroads companies needed cheap labor to build railroads, so Japanese immigrated to the United States for work. Digital image.differenttogether.atticusfinch16.21 June 2012.Web.2 April 2013.http://differenttogether.wordpress.com/ -
Alien Contract Labor Laws
Alien Contract Labor Law bars prohibited any company or individual from bringing foreigners into the United States under contract to perform labor here. The only exceptions are those who were brought to do domestic service and skilled workmen who should be needed here to help establish some new trade or industry. The Japanese would have to make their own work in the United States. -
Gentleman's Agreement
Only Japanese wives could come to the United States, making the population larger. Japanese women arriving at the "Ellis Island of the West," California's Angel Island Immigration Station. By 1920, an Estimated 6.000 to 19.000 Japanese "picture brides" were processed through Angel Island.Digital Image.Descubra Nikkei*.Japanese American National Museum.8/1/13.Web.2/4/13.http://www.discovernikkei.org/ -
Expatriation Act
If a Japanese man who was an alien married an American woman, she would lose her citizenship -
California's Alien Land Law
The Japanese Issei who were not citizens could not buy land in California. -
Congress enacts a literacy requirement
If Japanese immigrants never learned to read, they would have to read if they wanted to immigrate to the United States. -
Executive Order 9066
Executive Order 9066 authorizes the military to evacuate 112,000 Japanese Americans from the Pacific coast and placed them in ten internment camps. Sign posted notifying people of Japanese descent to report for relocation.Digital image.Wikipedia.Wikipedia.18 March 2013.Web.2 April 2013.http://en.wikipedia.org/ -
Internment of Japanese was constitutional
In the case of United States v. Korematsu, the Supreme Court upholds the internment of Japanese Americans as constitutional.
