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- Gentlemen's Agreement 1907-1908
- Description
- President Theodore Roosevelt brokered a diplomatic agreement wherein the Japanese government took responsibility for restricting immigration, especially that of laborers. Japanese immigration had recently risen, in part as a response to the decrease in Chinese labor after Chinese immigration was limited by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. However, Californians were not pleased by this. Roosevelt did not wish to openly offend Japan which was rising as a world power and thus the Gentleman's agreement was brokered. This agreement did not come out publically until 1924.
