Transcript Japanese Internment

Japanese Internment
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The Fourteenth Amendment:
(Read)
All persons born or naturalized in the United
States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
are citizens of the United States and of the
state wherein they reside. No state shall
make or enforce any law which shall abridge
the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any
person of life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protection of
the laws.
Ratified July 1868
The Fifth Amendment:
(Read and put into your own words)
No person shall… be deprived of life,
liberty, or property, without due process
of law; nor shall private property be
taken for public use, without just
compensation.
Ratified December 1791
Executive Order 9066:
Ordered by FDR
 February 19, 1942
 Removal of those of
 Japanese ancestry from CA, WA, OR, &
AZ.
 110,000 Japanese Americans removed
from their homes
 2/3 – Nisei – Born in this country
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The Internment Process
Internment was
indefinite (people
didn’t know when or if
they would return
home)
 Internees reported to
local fairgrounds to be
counted and shipped
to internment camps
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The Internment Process
Internees were
housed in temporary
facilities until the
camps were built
 They were sent on
trains from the coast
to the desert
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The Internment Process
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Most Japanese
Americans sold their
property & their
possessions
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Why do you think
they had to sell
everything?
Why did they get
very low prices for
their property?
Camp Locations
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Amache, CO
Gila River, AZ
Heart Mountain, WY
Jerome, AR
Manzanar, CA
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Minidoka, ID
Poston, AZ
Rohwer, AR
Topaz, UT
Tule Lake, CA
Describe the conditions in the
camps:
Describe the conditions in the
camps:
Describe the conditions in the
camps:
Heart Mountain, WY
Morning Flag Salute
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Why do you
think the
internees
would
salute the
flag and
fight to be
enlisted in
the army in
WWII?
Release
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Japanese Americans were released in
1945 & 1946 (after 3-4 years of
internment)
Fred Korematsu v. United States
Japanese American who refused internment
 Arrested and filed a case
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Asked: did the President and Congress go to far
with E.O 9066?
U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1944 that the
need to protect Americans outweighed
individual rights
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Race based exclusion was justified in a time of
war
Constitutional Rights
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Japanese Internment:
What were the reasons for interning
Japanese Americans?
 How did internment violate constitutional
rights?
 Did the need for wartime security justify
the internment?
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Aftermath
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Apology issued by President Bush in
1988
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Congress gives $20,000 to each internee
1983 – Federal Court issued an erasure
of Korematsu’s criminal conviction – yet
case was not overturned by Supreme
Court