Japanese Immigrants

Humans are estimated to have existed around for six million years. The modern humanoid that we are today is estimated to have emerged around 200,000 years ago. Throughout these past six million years humans lived one way, hunting and gathering nomadically. It was not until around 10,000 years ago that people throughout the world figured out that they could grow their own food and grow not just enough for themselves but a surplus which they could use for trade to acquire other goods that they did not have to make themselves because they could use their extra crops to trade for them instead. This was called the agricultural revolution and since then the world has grown exponentially and has advanced more in the past 10,000 years than it did in …show more content…
In California from 1849 when the gold rush began, to 1852 there was an influx of 25,000 Chinese migrants and also many Japanese migrants to california to seek gold. The gold was the main pull factor for migrants at this time because they believed that they were going to become very wealthy but they overestimated how much gold they were going to find. China had lost the First Great Opium war to Great Britain and this devastated the economy for China. The gold rush in the eyes of the Chinese people was a way to become rich as they were calling california “Gold Mountain” because of the stories that they were told of men finding great wealth and riches there. Japan had large amounts of migrants move to california after the Russo-Japanese war in 1905. Many people left during and after to escape violence and also a strained economy after fighting a large scale war against the Russian Superpower. Many Japanese migrants like the Chinese settled in the San Francisco and formed their own small communities within the city due to discrimination against the Japanese and Chinese …show more content…
For many years the Chinese and then the Japanese were very discriminated against and segregated from the local Americans or white people. There were so many migrants and the Americans that were angry because they were taking their jobs for a lower wage and then sending the money back to their homeland. By the 1920s there were around 100,000 japanese living in the US and they owned around 450,000 acres of land in california and had produced one self made millionaire. Even with their large prominence in the US the American wanted to stop people from Japan and China to stop migrating to the US and Japan actually agreed to this and this was an actual boycott for a period of time. They took this a step further when the California passed the Alien Land Law, which blocked all Asian immigrants for citizenship this also blocked Asian migrants from owning land in California, even land they had purchased years before and this happened around 1910. Then in 1924 the immigration act was made so that no Asian Immigrants could legally enter the US. It wasn’t until 1952 until this act was repealed and Asian immigrants were allowed to continue migrating to the US. These times were filled with great discrimination and unconstitutional acts and the US recognized this by repealing all of these acts. Japan must