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Why were Japanese sent to the internment camps?

Pearl Harbor, thought they were spies, discrimination

100

What part of the united states were most camps located in?

West, South, Midwest or East coast?

West

100
How much were you allowed to pack?
whatever you could carry
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What could not be brought to the camps?

anything relating to Japanese culture, pets, furniture

100
What percent of residents in the camps were American citizens?
70%
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What were Japanese accused of being?
spies for the Japanese empire
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What was the most popular sport played in the camp?
baseball
200
How long did Japanese Americans have to pack before going to the camps?
a week to ten days
200

Japanese internment happened during which world event?

World War 2

200
What occupation did most Japanese Americans hold?
successful farmers and businessmen
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What were Americans afraid of?
Another attack similar to Pearl Harbor
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To escape the internment camps what did some men do?
join the 442nd or Nisei regiment
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How were Japanese Americans treated by other American citizens?
racial discrimination
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What order was passed that resulted in the internment camps? FRD signed the...
Executive order 9066
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What generation where most Japanese Americans?
2nd generation
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Why didn't the Japanese Americans fight the US when they put them in the internment camps?
The Japanese wanted to prove that they were loyal to the USA
400
Describe their home at the camp.
converted old stables, given bed frames or cots, had to make own mattresses, public restrooms, mess halls, crowded
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How were the weather conditions at the camps
deserts, dust storms
400
In 1988 what was given to the people who had been in the inernment camps? ($)
$20,000
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To be considered Japanese you had to have...
1/6 Japanese blood
500
Why were the Japanese in Hawaii not sent to the internment camps?
40% of Hawaii was of Japanese descent USA afraid that it would ruin the economy
500
Name one internment camp
Manzanar, Topas, Heart Mtn.
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What did Japanese Americans do with what they could not bring?
sold the items; businesses, farms, automobiles, belongings, homes at low prices
500
What steps did the government take after Executive Order 9066? (rules set)
curfew, freeze assets, sent to relocation camps
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Who is a famous actor sent to a internment camp (hint: Star Treck)
George Takei