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Stated that only free white people could become a citizen, excluding natives, blacks, and Chinese.
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People can't live within the limits of Cherokee land.
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Federal government drives Creeks and Cherokee off of their land.
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Commander Matthew Perry sails into the harbor of Tokyo, with 4 warships, with intent to force Japan into trade relations in the U.S. For the past 350, the Japanese were forced to stay in Japan, which was the first time the US and Japanese citizens came together. In the decades following this act, the Japanese started to migrate into the U.S.
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Rising anti-Chinese sentiment caused by the increasing number of Asian immigrants occupying U.S. citizen's jobs led to the Exclusion act.
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Surrenders and is imprisoned in Fort Still.
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It allows the government to divide the land for the Indians and the rest can be sold.
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The San Fransisco School board voted in favor of Chinese and Japanese segregation in Californa schools.
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In this agreement, the United States stated that it would not make an immigration policy that excluded all Japanese immigrants, as long as Japan agreed to issue fewer passports for day labor in the U.S. However, this was only short-term to appease the racist ante-Asiatic Leagues.
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By 1911, almost half a million Japanese people lived in the United States. Most of these immigrants had awful working conditions and low wages.
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This act prohibited Japanese citizens from owning property.
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The act lowered the immigration quota from each European country and limited immigration by eastern and southern Europeans. This limited immigration to 2% in the United States.
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Japan launched a surprise attack on a U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor and declared war on the United States.
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Philip Johnston, a non-native American wants to create a code using Navajo language.
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President Franklin Roosevelt issued executive order 9066 that authorized the removal of all threats to national security.
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The court ruling for incarceration for the Japanese-Americans was unclear and indecisive.
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The United States apologizes and looks to give back civil rights.
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This act granted 20 thousand dollars to the Japanese people who were incarcerated. Some took this well, but some others felt that this was not enough to repay for what they had to go through.