AMST 298 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Asiatic Exclusion League, Andrew Furuseth, Picture Bride

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: American Studies
• Course: AMST 298
• Professor: Terry Parks

Document Summary

Immigrants during this time were schoolboys or elite japanese. Gentleman"s agreement (1907)-the gentlemen"s agreement of 1907 ( . Refers to the practice in the early 20th century of immigrant workers (chiefly japanese, okinawan, and korean) in hawaii and the west. Japanese and korean exclusion league/asiatic exclusion league (1905)-the . Francisco chronicle, published a picture of laborers who collected the meeting saying: Chinese immigrants in their agenda. advocating for the white man"s country and the prohibition of asian labor immigration, the ael set up branches across the pacific coast of north america, achieving transnational status and cross-border labor organization. Asians along the western coastlines. the league used strong-armed methods and violent forces against asians to try to ensure the rigorous enforcement of the chinese. Alien land laws (1913 and 1920) prevented japanese from owning land. Ant-japanese riot (turlock, 1924)-in july 1921, a mob of 150 white men evicted 60.