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Japanese immigrants come to america
Japanese come to America looking for economic opportunity, freedom, and most of all, they wanted a better life. -
Japanese settle on the West Coast
When the Japanese immigrated to America, they settled on the West Coast. In the years 1901-1908 125,000 Japanese people immigrated and settled on the West Coast. -
The Japanese Exclusion League was formed
People of America believed the Japanese were threating America's prosperity and safety of American citizens. In fact, a group was founded in San Francisco that wanted to exlude the Japanese. That group also merged with groups with similar intrests. -
The Gentleman's Agreement
When the anti-Japanese movement was heard of in Washington, D.C. in 1905, there already was prohibiting of Japanese from voting and being citizens. But now, all three political parties wanted to stop Asian immigration. But,Theodore Roosevelt didn't want to dishonor the Japanese leaders, so he decided to make an agreement with Japan in 1907-1908. In the agreement, Japan would cut off passports to Japanese laborers and America would stop anti-Japanese ligislation. -
The Immigration of Families After the Gentleman's Agreement
After the gentlemans agreemement was agreed to, the wives and children that might've been left in Japan when husbands set out to America, now had a legal right to immigrate to America. This increased the population by a lot. -
Picture Brides
Japanese-American citizen's families were immigrating to America, and so were picture brides. Picture brides were women who agreed to an arranged marrige with a Japanese immigrant in America. Most of the Japanese men who were citizens of the U.S. went to Japan to marry and take their new brides back to America. But some men couldn't afford the trip, so they had their parents chose a woman. The two would then exchange pictures, and if they liked them,the woman would marry him and move to America. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese bombed the American Navy Base at Pearl Harbor, and the bombing killed more than 2000 Japanese soldiers and civilians. -
FBI Searches Japanese
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. became suspicious of the Japanese, German, and Italian people. The FBI started to round up suspected aliens to the U.S. only hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Half of the 3000 suspects were Japanese, and most were taken in to be questioned.Japanese people did't appreciate this because most of them were trying to be as loyal as they could to the U.S. -
Order 9066
Executive Order 9066 states that all personnel that could be thought of as a dangerous to the security of the U.S. should be relocated, especially people of Japanese lineage. -
E-day
On this day, Japanese-Americans started to report to the control centers that they were assigned to, so then they could later move and relocate.
