People
Who was the voice of reasoning in 1941?
Ralph L. Carr.
Japanese people just moved to America. How did people react?
They reacted with bigotry and racism.
When did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor?
December 7th, 1941.
True or flase? Hiroshi said "My father had just spent about $125 for a set of new tires... and a brand new batter. So, he asked for $125. The 'bought' our pickup truck for $25." (43)
True
A Nisei is a person born in the US or Canada whose parents were immigrants from Japan. True or false?
True.
Who was the president in 1941?
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
What did the Japanese Americans do to try to earn equal rights?
They worked incredibly hard in their jobs and schooling.
How many camps were there?
There were ten camps.
True or flase? Mike Masaoka said "The purpose of my work was to show how these people... had overcome the sense of defeat and dispar..."
False, Ansel Adams said this.
What is the word for a dangerous, difficult, or otherwise unfortunate situation?
Plight.
Who was the photographer who took pictures of the Japanese Americans during this time? Why was she taking the photos?
Dorothea Lange. She took pictures to document the horrible situation for people to see.
The Japanese Americas were moved to barren and dry camps. What did they do?
They found stuff littered around the camps and used it to make tools for things like gardening. They made them beautiful.
Why did the Western farmers hate the Japanese Americans?
Because the Japanese Americans were outdoing them.
True or false? Dorothea Lange said "[The Japanese] are loyal Americans, sharing only race with the enemy."
False. Ralph L. Carr said that.
What does it mean to impound something?
It means to seize and take legal custody of something because of a violation of a law or regulation.
Who was Mike Masaoka?
He was a Japanese American who fought alongside his brothers and earned more than thirty combat medals together.
Or
He was one of the leaders who successfully fought in a legislative battle to get rid of the Alien Land Law.
Roosevelt didn't want to anger Congress, so what did he do to try to reassure that he would be reelected?
He let the military take the Japanese Americans to the camps even though he knew they were innocent.
How did the Japanese teach the children while they were in the camps.
The taught them by creating their own school supplies and mimicking typewritng so they knew how to type.
Or
People donated school supplies and books to them.
"They put the piano on the truck and they left twenty-five dollars for the piano, a (valuable) Baldwin piano." They did this to the Japanese Americans repeatedly with almost all their stuff. Why was that so insulting to them?
It was so insulting to them because people were taking their things they held very dear without a care in the world. Also, people paid them very little for said things.
What is a regimental combat team?
It is a tatical organization that is usually formed by attaching artillery, engineers, or other special details to an infantry regiment for a particular mission.
How was Ansel Adams different from Dorothea Lange?
He didn't want to picture all the unpleast things happening rather, he wanted to show how resiliant the Japanese Americans were despite all they'd been through.
The Alien Land Law was passed, preventing Japanese Americans from buying land as they weren't considered citizens. What did they do in return?
They bypassed the law by buying it in their children's name because their children were born in America, making them US citizens.
How long were the Japanese Americans in the assembly centers? Why?
They were in there for three months because the government had only just begun the building process for the relocation centers, so they had to wait in the assembly centers until then.
Why is this quote so empowering? "'Only what we could carry was the rule,' one internee wrote, 'so we carried Strength, Dignity, and Soul.'" (47)
It is empowering because it's giving the message that even though almost everything was taken from them, they still are standing tall and not letting it ruin them.
What does the term "Japs" mean?
The term Japs was a detragatory term used to put down Japanese Americans.