What Is Japan In Response To Theodore Roosevelt's Discrimination In California?

The Great White Fleet successfully returns after the longest fleet cruise every undertaken by a Navy. In 1907, American relations with Japan were growing increasingly concerning due to the influx of Japanese immigrant labor along the west coast which triggered a lot of discrimination by American working men. At the same time, Japan was seen as a military threat to the basically defenseless West Coast in Hawaii since Japan had recently won many land and sea battles against Russia. There was a huge fear that the Japanese government would take military action in response to California’s discrimination. In response to this, President Theodore Roosevelt took a number of measures recommended to him by the Joint Board of the Army and the Navy. This
included the deployment of America’s Atlantic Fleet, the entire battleship fleet, to the Pacific. This is also known as the most significant naval event of the Roosevelt administration.