| A | B |
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| Alien Land Act | The act prohibited anyone who was ineligible for citizenship from owning land and limited leases to three years. |
| Chinese Six Companies | The variuos hui kuan are traditionally, in turn, part of an unofficial government in each city. |
| Civil Liberties Act of 1988 | President Ronald Reagan signed this document, authorizing payments to evacuees or their heirs. |
| evacuees | Japanese Americans interned in camps for the duration of World War II. |
| Executive Order 9066 | It defined strategic military areas in the United States and authorized the removal from those areas of any people considered threats to national security. |
| hui kuan | Chinese-American benevolent associations organized on the basis of the district of the immigrant's origin in China. |
| Issei | First-generation immigrants from Japan to the United States. |
| Kibei | Japanese Americans of the Nisei generation sent back to Japan for schooling and to have marriages arranged. |
| loyalty test | Administered to Japanese Americans in 1943. |
| Mitsuye Endo v. United States | The Supreme Court ruled that the detainment was unconstitutional and consequently the defendant (and presumably all evacuees) must be granted their freedom. |
| Nisei | Children born of immigrants from Japan. |
| Sansei | The children of the Nisei, that is, the grandchildren of the original immigrants from Japan. |
| tongs | Chinese American secret associations. |
| tsu | Clans established along family lines and forming a basis for social organization by Chinese Americans. |
| Yonsei | The fourth generation of Japanese Americans in the United States, the children of the Sansei. |
