The Canadian government turned them away.
The idea of active citizenship
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China didn't have anything to do with citizenship, cities like Athens and Sparta had laws about citizenship and what a citizen could do and what a non-citizen could and couldn't do. China didn't have anything like that at the time/\.
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The 1913 California law forced Japanese Americans to sell their land Technically, it only prohibited them from owning land. However, if they had already owned land before the law, they are forced to sell that as well.