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This law states that the children of Japanese immigrants living in America become citiznes of America.
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This Law limits American citizenship to "white persons and persons of African descent," meaning Japanese could not be American citizens.
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Because of the Chinese Exclusion Act Chinese could no long immigrate to the U.S., so the Japanese came to U.S. for cheap labor and started to settle down and build communities. Image Citation: Chinese Exclusion Act.Digital Image.differenttogether.atticusfinch16.21/6/12.Web.2/4/13.
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This law prohibited any company or individual from bringing foreigners into the United States under contract to perform labor here. (a.ka. prohibeted any company/individual from employing foreigners). The only exceptions are those who were brought to do domestic service and skilled workmen who should be needed here to help establish some new trade or industry.
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This law declares that an American woman who marries a foreign (like a Japanese) national loses her citizenship.
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This law stated that no more Japanese men could immigrate to the Unites States. Only women/wives could immigrate to the U.S. which increased the population, and created Japanese communities. Image Citiation: A History of Japanese Americans in California.U.S. National Park Service.17 November 2004.Web.1 April 2013.http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/5views/5views4a.htm
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This law prohibited Japanese and Chinese from owning property in the state of California.
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The law required immigrants (Japanese) to be able to read 40 words in some language. The law also specifies that immigration is prohibited from Asia, except from Japan and the Philippines.
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This law authorized the military to evacuate 112,000 Japanese Americans from the Pacific coast and placed them in ten internment camps. Image Citation:
Executive Order 9066.Digital Image.dipity.Underlying, Inc.11/2/11.Web.2/4/13.http://www.dipity.com/.
