The Gentlemen’s Agreement was passed in the year 1907. This, “agreement” was between the United States and Japan. Many immigrants were emigrating from Japan towards the United States. Americans thought that there were too many Japanese in the United States. So in May of 1905, The Asian Exclusion League was formed. They pressured the San Francisco School Board to exclude the Japanese. It worked and on October 11, 1906, they made all Japanese and Koreans join the Chinese at the segregated Oriental School. The Californians didn’t want any more Japanese immigration. President Roosevelt, in order to please them, issued the Gentlemen’s Agreement. It stopped the issuance of passports to Japanese for the United States, except for family members. This didn’t stop the problem because the population of Japanese did go up as more and more children were born. Also, it fueled more racism. In later years more and more anti –Japanese bills were introduced in the Californian legislature and the racism continued.
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