Minority Studies: Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, Filipino
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Meiji Restoration | industrialization/modernization, Japan one of the fastest to grow and results were very easy |
| Factors of Modernization of Japan | 1. compulsory education 2.universal conscription (draft) 3. parliament/constitution |
| Outcomes of Russo-Japanese war | 1.first non white country to defeat Europeans 2.now world power, very militaristic |
| Push factors for Japanese | 1. continuous draft 2.continuous high taxes 3.always in war |
| Pull factors for Japanese | 1. need cheap labor 2. 1885-1924 more than 200,000 in US |
| Gentleman's Agreement | Teddy Roosevelt negotiates with Japanese Japan agrees to severely limit immigration to US if no Exclusion Act good until 1924 |
| Ozawa vs US | 1922 states immigrants cannot become citizens |
| Issei | first generation Japanese immigrants |
| Nisei | second generation ordered to go to segregated schools 1906 |
| Executive order 9066 | anyone who is thought to be a threat can be removed AKA Japanese General Dewitt order to go to internment camps |
| Japanese Citizenship | could be attained in 1952 |
| Land Grants | free land for settlers to live on to avoid westward expansion must follow criteria |
| Stephen Austin | led american settlers to Mexico |
| Promises by Americans for land grants | 1. must be catholic 2. must obey Mexican law |
| Reasons for Texas Independence war | 1. settlers wanted slavery 2. frustrated because no input in local gov. 3.cultural differences |
| Independence of Texas | 1836 |
| Annexation of Texas | 1845 |
| Manifest Destiny | God's will for westward expansion from Atlantic to Pacific |
| Aim for US in Mexican-American war | wanted California |
| Promises of Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | 1. promises all rights as citizens 2. guarantee possession of property neither kept |
| William Pike | Governor of New Mexico passes a law that all must file land grants at Santa Fe as proof of ownership, mysterious fire destroys all records |
| Santa Fe Ring | had real estate, land sold to settlers after fire |
| Mexican-American's loosing land to settlers | 1. territories charged them 2.heavy property taxes 3. borrowed money from banks at 20% interest per month |
| Mexican Independence | 1821 |
| Mexican- American war | 1846-1848 |
| First significant Filipino settlement in US | 1763 Saint Malo Louisiana on bayous |
| Common work for second wave immigration | 1. canneries in Alaska 2.sugar cane in Hawaii 3. harvested, picked, tilled all over |
| Banning for Filipino's | 1.miscegenation- against inter racial marriage 2. no voting 3.no owning land 4. no government jobs |
| Tydings-McDuffie Act | 1934 Filipinos cannot be citizens emigration restrictions placed on them |
| Filipino Citizenship | 1943 |
| Time period waves of Filipinos | 1. 1587-1906 2. 1906-1945 3. 1945-1965 4. 1965-present |
| Pinyos | another name for Filipinos |
| Pensionados | Filipino students studying in American universities |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | Filipino who fought alongside Americans to get rid of Spanish, when U.S. doesn't give Philippines its independence, he fights against Americans, labeled an insurgent by American press |
| Sakadas | Filipino immigrants who came to Hawaii and worked on the sugar plantations |
| Push factor for Chinese | 1.decline of Manchu Dynasty 2. inefficiency in gov. 3. widespread corruption 4.expansion of pop. 5. economic stagnation |
| US Nationals | A group of people the United States government is responsible for, they aren't actually citizens |
| St. Malo | first Filipino settlement in North America |
| Pull factor for Chinese | 1.gold rush (news of) 2.desire to find gold and return to fam 3.not unlike many to go to Cal 4.Coolie trade of unskilled workers |
| Yellow Peril | labor unions nickname for Chinese danger, immoral because not Christians |
| Chinese as Scapegoat victims | dress appearance language food, bad for local economy |
| Anti Chinese Legislation | 1. Exclusion Act- no skilled/unskilled workers may enter, try to stop immigration 2.Elimination from Occupations- degrading occupations 3. Harassment/Punitive- restaurants/laundries stay small, restrict success |
| Organization using Anti legislation as political issue | labor unions |
| Exclusion Act | 1882 no skilled/unskilled workers could enter US for 10 years (required certificates for entrance) |
| Scott Act | no more certificates of admission |
| Geary Act | 1892 extends immigration restriction for 10 more years must always carry certificate of residency |
| Chinese acceptable labor | menial labor occupations that did not compete with white owned business isolated into Chinatowns |
| Chinese Citizenship | 1943 aliens eligible for citizenship |
| No immigration whatsoever | 1924 |
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