Gentlemen's agreement

It is difficult to determine when Asians started immigrating to the Americas, but the first findings of a person of Asian descent in the American territory come from an archeological project in 2007. This project speculated that the first people were actually sea men from Japan that came around 16,000 years ago. It can also be said that Asian immigration to America started in 1763. In 1763, Filipino sailors abandoned ship from the Spanish ships and inhabited the New Orleans area. However, the…

Presenting Problem Hank Moody is a well known writer between his 30’s and 40’s who moved to Los Angeles from New York to continue his writing career with his on-again off-again ex-girlfriend and their daughter. He has written several novels, but most notably is God Hates Us All. This novel became a best seller and it is what puts him on the radar of every notable author and avid book reader. With this, attention follows. His daughter, Rebecca Moody, is high-school age and has a somewhat…

In the nineteenth century, European and American women lived in an era described by gender inequality. Women had few of the social, legal, or political rights: they had extremely restricted control over property after marriage, they didn't have the right to vote or even testify in court, and were barred to enrolled any higher education institutions. To add more, Women were expected to remain obedient to their husbands and fathers, their occupational choices were also extremely limited.(Olson,…

Introduction: There is no neglect that there is a linkage between public education and American democratic citizenship, in fact, the founding fathers of the United States constitution alluded that this connection ought to be essential to create a nation that would be able to function by itself without possible outside intervention. Furthermore, scholars such as Noa Webster wanted educated citizens not to just be able to “judge … what [would] secure or endanger [their] freedom” (Mondel, 2001,…

Conner Bone HIST 362 April 14th, 2024. Baseball’s Failure as a Meritocratic Institution Many within baseball hold the steadfast belief that the sport as a whole, across its various organizations and systems, has always been a meritocracy. Supposedly, it does not matter who you are or where you came from. As long as you have the skills and athleticism, you can make it big in baseball. And to that end, anyone can be successful in baseball if they work hard enough and persevere. In other words,…

One and a half million Mexicans migrated to America between 1900 and 1930. Rise of industrialized farming led to increased demand for a massive need for seasonal and migratory labor. With the passage Asian exclusion acts, American farmers needed a new source of cheap labor that could supplement their loss of Asian labor. Mexicans were already migrating to America during this time to escape the political instability occurring during the Mexican Revolution. Growers had been looking toward…

Japanese immigration to Brazil- a story of success marked by failures, persistence, and hard work. • Why Japan? Japan is rarely seen as central to the history of mass migration or imperial expansion, despite having been profoundly involved in both (Mack, 2010). An immigration of Japanese to Brazil started officially when the first ship Kasato Maru landed in the port of Santos in June 1908 (Sasaki, 2006). The beginning of a Japanese era in Brazil was influenced by two significant waves of…

and ”’the full brunt of [a] French and British attack’” (Ferguson, p. 147). Even Asquith’s reluctant intervention, in a sense, was a product of the tense European political situation – to the British Empire, war came about as a result of gentlemen’s agreements with France, the threat of a German goliath, and yes, the matter of Belgium neutrality. Individual decisions transformed Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination into a global calamity, but Europe was bound to war eventually – it was merely a…

fit in, that they would cause crime and violence, and they threatened American economy because they accepted lower wages. Three specific measures were attempted to halt immigration: The Chinese Exclusion Act, to ban Chinese immigration; The Gentlemen’s Agreement, where Japan would agree to send only skilled immigrants; and the Literacy test which meant no English, no…

dollars in 1903 (MTCSALC, 2011, p.1). From then, many other laws were contrived based off the detest towards the Japanese including in 1895 when the British Columbia Government denied citizens of Asiatic origin the right to vote. Also, the ’Gentlemen’s Agreement’ in 1908 which prohibited more than 400 male asiatic immigrants per year to enter Canada (Nikkei, 2016, p.1). As hatred for the Japanese grew, more restrictions were put into place. In the years leading up to Japanese internment, 1,200…