Internment and the Constitution

Question 1

What was the impact of President Roosevelt’s approval of Executive Order 9066?

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More than 100,000 Japanese Americans were ordered to leave their homes and move to internment camps.

Question 2

Internment camps were also known as

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relocation centers.

Question 3

During World War II, the US government sent people of Japanese ancestry to internment camps based on

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whether they lived in an exclusion zone.

Question 4

Who issued Executive Order 9066?

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Franklin Roosevelt

Question 5

In the Supreme Court case Korematsu v. United States, the court decided that the Fourteenth Amendment

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could be waived in a time of emergency such as war.

Question 6

Which of the following best describes what World War II internees faced when they returned home?

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property damage and discrimination

Question 7

During World War II, the government argued that it should be able to waive the Fourteenth Amendment, claiming

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certain groups could be excluded from this protection.

Question 8

In Korematsu v. US (1944), the Supreme Court ruled that in a time of great “emergency and peril,” the internment of Japanese Americans was

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constitutional

Question 9

How did President Truman’s Executive Order 9981 show progress toward racial equality?

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The order ended segregation in the military.

Question 10

Why were Japanese Americans living on the West Coast interned after the Pearl Harbor attack?

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Many people feared the presence of Japanese spies after Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor.

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