Japanese Immigration

By AshleyW.

  • Know Nothing political party unsuccessfully seeks to increase restrictions on naturalization.

  • Naturalization Act limits American citizenship to "white persons and persons of African descent

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act gives the Japanese a chance to come over here.
  • Gentleman's Agreement

    Gentleman's Agreement

    This mean that if American women who marries a foreign will lose her citizenship

  • California's Alien Land Law

  • California's Alien Land Law

  • In the landmark case of United States v. Bhaghat Singh Thind, the Supreme Court rules that Indians from the Asian subcontinent could not become naturalized U.S. citizens.

    This is law means Indians from the Asian subcontinent cannot become naturalized United States citizens.

  • The Chinese Exclusion Act

    This law mean that after the 1940's all restrictions on the Japansese are ended.

  • The Redress Act

    This law means that the Redress act provides $20,000 compensation to survivors of the World War II internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans.