Japanese exclusion act of 1924

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Japanese Exclusion Act of 1924

Japanese Exclusion Act of 1924 , also known as the Immigration Act of 1924 , was one of the federal laws of the United States that limited the quantity of immigrants to United States from any country to a certain percentage of the already living in the United States based on the 1890 Census . As for the case of Immigration Act of 1924 , only two percent f the people already living in United States from other country since 1890 can only be admitted

(Historicaldocuments .com 1 . In fact , the Immigration Act of 1924 superseded the Emergency Quota of 1921 , which required three percent of the from other countries in 1910 , in to further intensify the lowering down of the country

Specifically , the said law aimed to restrict Europeans especially those coming from the Eastern and Southern part of the said region including East Asians and Asian Indians among those regions that were restricted by the federal government of the United States from immigrating into their country . Furthermore , this act also barred all immigrants that were considered by the federal government as ineligible for citizenship based on the race , the region where a certain foreigner came from

Like for the case of those people from Eastern and Southern Europe as well as those people from the East Asia and Asian Indians was being prohibited by the federal government from naturalizing themselves into being an American citizen . Among of those countries that were greatly affected by the promulgation of the said law , it is Japan who showed great protest and actually requested the United States to move the said laws on the case of the Japanese . But at the end of the day , the federal government stick to their stand and continued the implementation of Immigration Act of 1924 . Furthermore , the main argument of the Japanese why they were protesting on the said act was the clear violation of United States on the Gentleman 's Agreement

Now , it was deemed that this clash between United States and Japan caused great tension between the two countries and this served as the ground for Japan to become an ally of Germans during World War II . Now as for the scope of this , chains of events will be discussed and revealed on how the passing of Immigration Act of 1924 led Japan towards their collaboration with the Germans on the Second World War (UShistory .com 1

Early Years of Immigration to United States

In the 1860s and 1870s the Chinese , most of them were men , made up of some 10 to 15 percent of the population of many western states . After the Chinese Exclusion Act as well as the filling of the West by pioneers , that the percentage must be dropped rapidly . Still , the Chinese population in the country continues to grow mainly because of the high birth rates and Chinese immigration to Canada

From 1870 to 1920 around 25 million immigrants entered the United States...