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In 1844 Representative Caleb Cushing of Massachusetts resigned to become America’s first commissioner to China and negotiated a trade treaty with the Ta Tsing (Qing) Empire.
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On March 31, 1854, the first treaty between Japan and the United States was signed. The Treaty was the result of an encounter between an elaborately planned mission to open Japan and an unwavering policy by Japan's government of forbidding commerce with foreign nations.
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In the Burlingame Treaty, also known as the Burlingame-Seward Treaty, concluded in Washington, the U.S. and China agreed on the following that either nation would be open to unlimited immigration from the other
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Saito, a Japanese man, applies for U.S. citizenship, but U.S. circuit courts refuse because he is neither white nor black.
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Wong Kim Ark v. U.S. decides that Chinese born in the U.S. cannot be stripped of their citizenship.
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Immigration officials and the police raid Boston's Chinatown and, without search warrants, arrest almost 250 Chinese who allegedly had no registration certificates on their persons.
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Major earthquake in San Francisco destroys all municipal records, including immigration records, so Chinese immigrants are able to claim they are U.S. citizens and have the right to bring wives and children to America.
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Amendment to 1945 War Brides Act allows Chinese American veterans to bring brides into the U.S.
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Japan surrenders, resulting in the end of WWII
