November 29, 2018 Modern Issues in the U.S. Agenda: DO NOW: Supreme Court Case Matching NOTES #19: How were rights denied to Asian Americans in the U.S.? CLASS ASSIGNMENT: “Japanese Americans”

How were rights denied to Asian Americans in the U.S.? Notes #19

During the late 1800s, pressures from nativists resulted in the U. S During the late 1800s, pressures from nativists resulted in the U.S. government limiting immigration from China and Japan.

Examples of the U.S. government limiting immigration included: the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Gentleman’s Agreement with Japan.

By the 1940s, Japanese Americans were seen as security threats to the U.S. as a result of Japan’s involvement in World War II (WWII). President Franklin D. Roosevelt asks for and gets Congress to declare war on Japan, after the attack at Pearl Harbor (December 8, 1941)

These increased feelings of racial prejudice toward Japanese Americans was a major cause of their internment during WWII.

This internment involved the U. S This internment involved the U.S. government forcing many Japanese Americans to live in detention centers after an executive order was issued. Executive Order 9066 (1942)

Over 120,000 Japanese Americans were interned; 62% were American-born (Nisei)

In the 1944 case Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that wartime conditions justified limitations placed on civil liberties (such as the internment of Japanese Americans). Fred Korematsu

By 1988, the U.S. government admitted it was unjust for its internment of Japanese Americans.