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100
A region where most of the camps were located.
What is west?
100
What temperatures did the camps range from?
-30 degrees to 100 degrees
100
American-born Japanese
What is Nisei?
100
Most of the Japanese Americans returned to this region.
Where is the Pacific coast?
100
Including wisdom teeth, it is the number of teeth that a normal human being has by adulthood.
What is 32 teeth?
200
The number of Japanese Americans evacuated.
What is 110,000?
200
The number of unarmed youth killed by a military police in a riot in the winter of 1942.
What is 2?
200
The main cause for Japanese internment.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
200
Japanese faced social and economical discrimination in this time period.
What is 1950s?
200
Fred Korematsu changed his name to this to avoid being caught as Japanese.
What is Clyde Sarah?
300
Signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones.
What is Executive Order of 9006?
300
Only they were eligible for positions/jobs in the camps.
Who were the Nisei?
300
The Koremastsu court case challenged this amendment.
What is 14th amendment?
300
For every dollar lost, Congress agreed to pay this much.
What is 10 cents?
300
The island in Jonathan Swifts "Gulliver's Travels" which is inhabited by magicians and sorcerers.
What is the island of Glubbdubdrib?
400
Congress and military leaders perceived this as the reason for the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the west coast.
What is military necessity?
400
The average cost of a meal per person.
What is 45 cents?
400
The War Relocation Authority tried to separate "loyal" from "disloyal" through this application for leave clearance.
What is the "Statement of U.S. Citizenship of Japanese American Ancestry"?
400
The end of Japanese internment.
What is 1945?
400
Widely credited with making the first flag of the United States
Who is Betsy Ross?
500
It authorized the solution of an official government apology; pay $20,000 to each survivor of the internment; furthermore a public education fund to help ensure that this will not happen again.
What is Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians?
500
They received wages as low as $8/month from working for this many hours per month.
What is 44 hours?
500
This act enabled Issei (first-generation, immigrant Japanese) and other Asian immigrants -- previously ineligible for citizenship --to become U.S. citizens.
What is the Walter-McCarran Act?
500
The total amount of income lost by the Japanese people
What is 1.3 billion dollars?
500
The 20th president of the U.S (Hint: Election of 1800)
Who is James A. Garfield?