Japanese immigration

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  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

    The Alien and Sedition Acts permitted the President to deport any foreigner deemed to be dangerous. A revised Naturalization Act imposed a 14-year residency requirement for prospective citizens. it makes it so the japanese can be citezens but they have to be there for 14 years.

  • Naturalization Act

    This Act limited U.S. citizenship to whites and African-Americans and barred Asians from U.S. Citizenship.

  • Gentleman's Agreement

    Japanese laborers were not allowed to immigrate to the U.S. mainland, but other Japanese immigration was permitted.

  • California's Alien Land Law

    California's Alien Land Law prohibits "aliens ineligible for citizenship" (Chinese and Japanese) from owning property in the state. It provides the model for Similar acts in other states. This provented the japanese from haveing farm land

  • Congress enacts a literacy requirement

    1917 Congress enacts a literacy requirement for immigrants over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. The law requires immigrants to be able to read 40 words in some language. The law also specifies that immigration is prohibited from Asia, except from Japan and the Philippines.

  • The Alien Registration Act

    The Alien Registration Act requires the registration and fingerprinting of all aliens in the United States over the age of 14. The act classifies Korean immigrants as subjects of Japan.

  • Executive Order 9066

    This Order gave the mimlitary authority to 'evacuate' Japanese-Americans from the Pacific Coast to internment camps

  • interment canmp

    In the case of United States v. Korematsu, the Supreme Court upholds the internment of Japanese Americans as constitutional. makes it so they have to go to the camps

  • The Redress Act

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