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Push & Pull Factors
Arrival in the U.S.
Life After Arrival
World War II
After World War II
100
Opportunity, jobs, and money.
Why did Japanese people come to America?
100
The ocean that was most commonly crossed by Japanese immigrants.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
The gold rush of 1849.
What is one of the periods of extensive immigration?
100
10 of these were set up to put hold Japanese Americans during World War II as a way of getting rid of suspected spies.
What are internment camps?
100
World War II ended this year.
What is 1945?
200
Internal dissent, starvation, and lack of leader
Why did Japanese people emigrate from Japan?
200
"The Ellis Island of the West"
What is Angel Island?
200
Racism and hate were two of the most major examples.
What are the barriers Japanese Americans faced?
200
A major bombing that forced the U.S. to join World War II.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
200
The agreement the U.S. and Japan signed.
What is the Gentlemen's agreement?
300
A Commander-in-chief in Japanese feudal society.
What is a shogun?
300
It was located off the San Francisco Bay.
Where is Angel Island located?
300
Many immigration laws were put in place to help.
How did the U.S. eventually ease immigration restrictions?
300
100 people from every country were allowed to immigrate each year.
What were the effects of the McCarran-Walter Act?
300
A law that allowed approximately 20,000 Japanese immigrants were allowed to immigrate to the United States every year.
What is The Immigration Act of 1965?
400
This event stirred up turmoil in Japan.
What was Commander Perry's Arrival?
400
Harder questions, longer periods of time, and living conditions were all reasons why.
Why was Angel Island worse than Ellis Island?
400
Their intelligence, hard-working, and amiable relations were reasons why.
Why did Japanese Americans earn more respect after WWII?
400
California, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Texas, and Arkansas
What are the locations of the internment camps?
400
$20,000
What is the amount of money given to each surviving intern?
500
After this event, Japan's rapid urbanization and industrialization brought about great agricultural decline.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
500
This law practically excluded Asians and other nonwhites from entry into the United States.
What is the National Origins Act of 1924?
500
This act allowed first generation Japanese Americans to have the right to become naturalized U.S. citizens.
What is McCarran-Walter Act?
500
The US War Relocation Authority
What is the group that controlled the internment camps?
500
President Theodore Roosevelt
Who was the biggest figure that helped create the Gentlemen's Agreement?