Japanese Incarceration Law Timeline

By EmmaSoccer

  • 14th Amendment

    The children of Japanese immigrants are citizens.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • The Alien Contract Labor Law

  • Expatriation Act declares that an American woman who marries a foreign national loses her citizenship.

  • Gentlemen's Agreement

    Gentlemen's Agreement
    Stated that no more Japanese men could immigrate from Japan to the United States.
    Lim, Justin. "Picture Brides." 1880-1910. Lim, Justin. December, 2009. Web. 4/3/13. http://aapcgroup11.blogspot.com/2009/12/picture-brides.html.

  • 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.

  • Executive Order 9066 authorizes the military to evacuate 112,000 Japanese Americans from the Pacific coast and placed them in ten internment camps.

    Executive Order 9066 authorizes the military to evacuate 112,000 Japanese Americans from the Pacific coast and placed them in ten internment camps.
    Bravo, Daryl. "Executive Order 9066". Japanese Interment. Daryl, Bravo, . Web. 4/2/2013. http://hdjapaneseinternment.weebly.com/executive-order-9066.html.

  • The Chinese Exclusion Act is repealed. By the end of the 1940s, all restrictions on Asians acquiring U.S. citizenship are abolished.

  • In the case of United States v. Korematsu, the Supreme Court upholds the internment of Japanese Americans as constitutional.