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Japanese Americans By: Katerina, Pajar, Meyayua, Dana, Ismael

Japanese Americans By: Katerina, Pajar, Meyayua, Dana, Ismael . Japanese Americans Before the War. Japanese immigrants saw independent farming as the way to move up the economic ladder.

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Japanese Americans By: Katerina, Pajar, Meyayua, Dana, Ismael

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  1. Japanese Americans By: Katerina, Pajar, Meyayua, Dana, Ismael

  2. Japanese Americans Before the War • Japanese immigrants saw independent farming as the way to move up the economic ladder. • Some Japanese immigrants came to America with plans to return to Japan after making some money while others had planned to begin a new life in America. • In the early 1900’s, they spreaded throughout the Northwest to provide farm labor. • Envy and racial discrimination by the Americans led to an increasing anti-Japanese attitude. • A high percentage of Japanese moved from migratory work to own businesses or farms. • The National Origins Act of 1924 excluded any further Japanese immigration. • The Anti-Alien Association pressured states to pass laws on forbidding Japanese Americans from owning land.

  3. Japanese Americans Before The War • Japanese received a moderate level of racism that was typical for any minority group at that time. • They were friends with the Americans they lived near and worked with.

  4. Japanese Americans Before The War • The Japanese did normal things as we do today. The children go to school, they played with their friends, the parents go to work, and etc. • There was the Alien Land Law. This law prevented all asian immigrants immigrants including the Japanese from owning land or property, though they were allowed a three years lease.

  5. A Riot damage done by the Asiatic Exclusion League to the store of K. Okada. A Japanese grocery store and post office in 1919.

  6. During: -FDR signed executive order 9066 - evacuation and relocation of 122,000 Japanese -Government told Japanese that they were being incarcerated for military necessity and to “protect Japanese Americans from racist retribution” -Faced prejudice and racism -Prevented them from owning land - Were sent to camps on the west coast where they worked studied and lived their lives in Barrads-like living quarters -East camp held 6,000

  7. Internment Camps: -Life in camps was hard -Only allowed to bring a few possessions -48 hours to evacuate homes -Housed in barracks Communal areas for washing laundry and eating -Extreme temperatures/ location = dessert -Camps guarded by military those who disobeyed the rules or were troublesome were sent to another site -Camps fenced block arrangements -Meals= meager portions, fruit and vegetables -Many died from inadequate medical care and emotional stress

  8. Japanese Americans after the War • December 1944, President Roosevelt rescinded Executive Order 9066( which shut down the camps) • President Truman signed the Japanese American Evacuation Claims Act in the year 1948, which compensate Japanese Americans for their economic losses. • June 1952 Congress passed the McCarran Walter Act, granting Japanese aliens the right to become naturalized US citizens. • This resulted in first-generation Japanese Americans • Many of them wanted justification for the harsh conditions they experienced during World War II • Japanese American Citizens Leagueofficially requested in 1978, for Congress to investigate whether the imprisonment during World War II was unjustified, it was resulted as race prejudice. • The Civil liberties act of 1988 • was an official apology made to Japanese Americans in 1988 by Congress • about 80,000 individual claims were paid, at a total cost of about $1.6 billion • Mainly it was was a struggle for them to fit back into the american society after all that happened, getting jobs, racist and

  9. Japanese after war continued

  10. Bibliography "Japanese American Life under U.S. Policies before and during World War II." - SourceWatch. N.p., 04 June 2009. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. "Life before Internment Camps." ThinkQuest. Oracle Foundation, n.d. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. "Japanese American Life After Internment." YouTube. YouTube, 20 Nov. 2013. Web. 05 Dec. 2013. "Japanese-American Life after World War II." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 17 Nov. 2013. Web. 05 Dec. 2013.” Daniels, Roger. "Japanese Americans: The War at Home | Scholastic.com." Japanese Americans: The War at Home | Scholastic.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Dec. 2013. "Historical Overview: Japanese Americans." Historical Overview: Japanese Americans. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Dec. 2013. "Japanese-American Life before World War II." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 09 Sept. 2013. Web. 05 Dec. 2013.

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