American Studies

  • Naturalization Act

    Specified that only a free white person could be a US citizen
  • Andrew Jackson is Elected

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    Geronimo

  • Indian Removal Act

    Native Americans were forced to leave their homelands.
  • Trail of Tears

  • Indian Removal Act is repealed

  • First prominent conflict begins with Japan

    US Navy sailed into a harbor in Tokyo despite strict laws prohibiting it.
  • Feudal Japanese Military Government Ends

  • Japanese immigration to USA begins

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Dawes Act

    allowed the government to divide reservations into small plots of land for individual Indians, the rest was sold
  • Hawaii becomes a US Territory

    Lots of japanese people went there for work after gentlemens act.
    Labor conditions were bad for japanese workers. They worked on sugar farms and recruited workers from Filipino.
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    Japanese Farming Booms

    The Japanese farms begin to have economic force that takes up 10% of all californian farms
  • Japanese Students are Segregated from public schools

  • Gentlemen's (unofficial) Agreement

    An unnoficial agreement to not descriminate against Japenese immigrants
  • National Origins Act is passed

    A law that severely restricted immigration that targeted places in southern and eastern Europe and Asia
  • Worcecester vs Georgia

    Only the federal government can interact with native tribes
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    Navajo Code Talkers Were Used

  • Pearl Harbor Bombing

    The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack by the Japanese on the United States against a naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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    Wrongdoings of US Gov are publicised

    Cases arise bringing to light the illegality of incarcerating Japanese who had not committed any wrongdoings
  • Executive Order 9006 is Signed

    Called for the removal of "all possible threats" from the US
  • Japanese Removal Officially Begins

  • Last Internment Camp is Closed

  • National Origins Act is Repealed

  • Civil Liberties Act is Signed

    The United States Government gives reperations back to those affected by Japenese internment during ww2