Japanese timeline

By Ben O.

  • Naturalization Act limits American citizenship to "white persons and persons of African descent," barring Asians from U.S. citizenship.

    This affects the Japanese because it means they can't be citizens in the US, and they don't have the rights that American Citizens have.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act restricts Chinese immigration.

    Chinese Exclusion Act restricts Chinese immigration.
    This relates to the Japanese in that the Chinese are not comming, so there is more space for the Japanese to farm.
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    Chinese Railroad Workers. Digital Image. Significant Dates in Asian American/Chinese American History. Web. 02/04/13.

  • Alien Contract Labor Laws

    Prevents many Japanese people from finding work in the U.S.

  • Only picture brides are allowed to immigrate

    Only picture brides are allowed to immigrate
    This relates to the Japanese in that now the japanese men can get wives and have children therefore making the population bigger. Prof. Yamamoto Takeo. Picture Brides, San Francisco, circa 1920. Digital image.Issei Marriage Customs. . 2006.web. April2 2013. http://jahmp.org/history.php?t=Issei
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  • Prohibits Japanese owning property in California.

    California's Alien Land Law prohibits aliens from owning property there. This effects the Japanese because California was a big farming state for them, now the can't own land there.

  • Japanese evacuated

    Executive Order 9066 authorizes the military to evacuate 112,000 Japanese Americans from the Pacific coast and placed them in ten internment camps. This relates to the Japanese in that they are being evacuated from their homes thaks to this law.

  • Chinese exclution act repealed

    The Chinese are now allowed to immigrate to the United States again.

  • United States pass law allowing the Japanese to be put in internment camps.

    United States pass law allowing the Japanese to be put in internment camps.
    In the case of United States v. Korematsu, the Supreme Court upholds the internment of Japanese Americans as constitutional. This relates to the Japanese in that it is now legal for the United States to place them in internment camps. Image,
    Wartime Relocation Authority. Gila River Camp,Arizona. digitial image. Children Of The Camps: Interment History. PBS. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/camps.html

  • United States repaies Japanese.

    The Redress Act provides $20,000 compensation to survivors of the World War II internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans. This relates to the Japanese in that after all these years of being essentially imprisoned, they are finally being repaid