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Answer: Here you go it's all in the explanation! :)

Explanation: Who?: Japanese, African American, Mexican, Chinese, and Native American

What Happened?: Congress makes annual immigration quotas permanent.

When did all this happen?: 1929 up until 2000

Where did all this happen?: The United States

Why did all this happen?: Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii galvanizes America’s war effort. Over 1,000 Japanese-American community leaders are incarcerated because of national security. President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 8802, forbidding discrimination in federal hiring, job-training programs, and defense industries. The newly created Fair Employment Practices Commission investigates discrimination against black employees. African American. President Franklin Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, authorizing the building of “relocation camps” for Japanese Americans living along the Pacific Coast. Congress allows for importation of agricultural workers from within North, Central, and South America. The Bracero Program allows Mexican laborers to work in the U.S. The Magnuson Act of 1943 repeals the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, establishes quotas for Chinese immigrants, and makes them eligible for U.S. citizenship. The War Bride Act and the G.I. Fiancées Act allows immigration of foreign-born wives, fiancé(e)s, husbands, and children of U.S. armed forces personnel. The Supreme Court rules that California’s Alien Land Laws prohibiting the ownership of agricultural property violates the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. The United States admits persons fleeing persecution in their native lands; allowing 205,000 refugees to enter within two years.

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