1. Japanese Immigration
... a case, Takao Ozawa v. United States, the U.S. declared that Japanese were ineligible for citizenship. U.S. said that any "Free white persons" were eligible for citizenship by Congress in 1790. Due to some ambiguity about the term "white," 420 Japanese had been naturalized, but a ruling by a U.S. attorney general stopped the issuing of papers to Japanese in 1906. The Supreme Court ruled that Ozawa was ... ...
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