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This act declared that the children of Japanese immigrants are citizens.
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The Expatriation Act declared that an American woman who married a foreign national lwould lose her American citizenshiip. This meant that all American women who married Japanese men belonged to no country.
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California's Alien Land Law prohibited "aliens ineligible for citizenship" (Chinese and Japanese) from owning property in the state. It provided the model for similar acts in other states.
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The Oriental Exclusion Act prohibited most immigration from Asia, including foreign-born wives and children of U.S. citizens of Chinese ancestry. It effects the Japanese because they were allowed to come to America.
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Under this Act, only women from Japan, not men, were able to come to America.
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This act affected Japanese-Americans because they were able to become citizens after 14 years of living in America.
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This act affected Japanese-Americans because aliens were required to be fingerprinted, thus equating aliens with criminals.
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People of Japanese descent living in America were required to relocate to internment camps. This act violated the rights of Japanese-Americans under the Fourteenth Amendment
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Executive Order 9066 authorized the military to relocate 112,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in Pacific coastal states to ten internment camps.
