Causes of Internment
The event that led to Japanese internment during World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
The type of housing where families lived
What are barracks?
The ancestry of most internees.
What is Japanese ancestry?
The constitutional right most directly limited by internment.
What is due process?
The war after which the camps closed.
What is World War II?
The president who signed Executive Order 9066.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The barrier surrounding many camps.
What are barbed-wire fences?
The country of citizenship for about two-thirds of internees.
What is the United States?
The Supreme Court case that upheld internment during the war.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
Property many Japanese Americans lost during internment.
What are homes and businesses?
The country the United States was fighting in the Pacific.
What is Japan?
The structures used by guards to watch internees.
What are guard towers?
The approximate number of people interned.
What is 120,000?
The group whose civil liberties were restricted during internment.
Who are Japanese Americans?
The action taken by the U.S. government in 1988.
What is an official apology?
The fear used to justify internment.
What is espionage and sabotage?
Something many families lacked in camp housing.
What is privacy?
The government agency that managed the camps.
What is the War Relocation Authority?
The amendment that guarantees no person can be deprived of liberty without due process.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
The law that provided compensation to survivors.
What is the Civil Liberties Act of 1988?
The order that authorized the removal of Japanese Americans from military zones.
What is Executive Order 9066?
An activity that continued for many children in the camps.
What is schooling?
The term for Japanese Americans born in the United States.
What is Nisei?
The freedom that allows citizens to live where they choose.
What is freedom of movement?
The rights commonly viewed as having been violated by internment.
What are civil rights and civil liberties?