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Japanese Internment Camps
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- Slide: 1
- The War Department won the argument and created 12 restricted zones along the Pacific Coast.
- Hey War Department, I disagree!
- Hey U.S. Department of Justice, After 1941 Pearl Harbor incident, I don't trust the Japanese citizens in America. We should detain them!
- Japanese immigrants were known as "Issei" and American born second generation Japanese were called "Nisei."
- Slide: 2
- The Order of 9066 stated that U.S. military could take anyone away from certain areas. Japanese citizens were not specifically mentioned but it was implied and the military understood the assignment
- I am Franklin D. Roosevelt and I am signing the executive order of 9066!
- Slide: 3
- This is Unconstitutional! We're surrounded by barbed wire and we're trying to re-establish some sense of community but it is not the same! Some of us have spent 3 years here!!!
- It's okay! We'll give you all $2,000 after this!
- In 1982, a presidential commission concluded the camps were racist and bad leadership.
- **The camp looked like this but the houses were plain and the ground was all dirt
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