Internment and the Constitution

Question 1

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 2

During World War II, how did the policy of internment affect people of Japanese descent in the United States?

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They were forced to relocate to assembly 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

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 5

Who was Fred Korematsu?

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an American citizen who lived in California

Question 6

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 7

Which is one advantage of using Navajo as a military code language?

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Since few people understood it, it was a difficult code to break.

Question 8

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 9

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 10

Why did the US government think internment camps were necessary during World War II?

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to protect national security

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