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YOU HAVE 10 MINUTES TO GET THIS DONE! Group Term Review Issei: A person born in Japan that migrates to a new country (in North America). First generation.   Your group will be assigned one or two terms Share the definitions you found for your term As a group, write out a definition for your term that is clear, simple and easy to comprehend. On the provided paper, write the Term and the Definition in large clear writing You will have only a few minutes to complete this activity, so work efficiently. Nisei: The first generation of Japanese children born in America. They are the second generation. Their parents were born in Japan (issei). YOU HAVE 10 MINUTES TO GET THIS DONE!

Japanese Internment Fear of people of Japanese descent (betrayal) was created in the United States following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. In response, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 which called for all people of Japanese descent in the Pacific region to be interned during the war. This order applied to immigrants and citizens. Fred Korematsu was convicted of violating Executive Order 9066 when he refused to leave his home. Korematsu appealed his conviction saying that Executive Order 9066 violated his Fifth Amendment right to not be deprived of life, liberty, and property without due process. The Supreme Court ruled that the order did not violate Korematsu’s rights because the order applied to people whose ancestral homeland was at war with the United States. Why were Japanese Americans sent to Internment Camps? What was Executive Order 9066? How did Americans respond to this order? How did our government respond? As a country, how are we repeating our past mistakes?

Camp Harmony (Puyallup Assembly Center), Spring 1942 Seattle posting of the first Japanese Exclusion Order (No 17, dated April 24, 1942) Camp Harmony (Puyallup Assembly Center), Spring 1942  

Constitutional Issues: Principles The Constitution is a framework for government that attempts to embody who we are. The 3 central ideas that explain who we are were first explained in the Declaration of Independence. Our first belief is that there is something called Natural Law. This is to say that there are certain rights that every human being is entitled to and that no one, and no government, can take away. These are our individual rights. Our second belief is that the only purpose of government is to guarantee these rights to every citizen. This is because we can only guarantee these rights if we make sure that each individual respects the rights of others. This is known as the Social Contract. The rights of the entire group are known as the common good. The third idea is that any government must be limited to promoting the common good while protecting each person’s individual rights. This is an example of Limited Government. Our government constantly has to balance the ideas of individual rights and common good by controlling our actions. Even though the government can create legislation that can control our actions, ultimately we, the people, control the actions of the government. Therefore, the decisions of government may only be considered just if all people are involved in the process.

These three ideas make up the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence:    1. Natural Law- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.   2. The Social Contract- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, 3. Limited Government- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness.

Processing info Summarize the concept Work individually or in your group to fill out this graphic based upon the reading Summarize the concept According to this concept what is the government’s obligation to its citizens?

The United States Constitution The Preamble: We the People  of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. “We the people…” Who has the power in the U.S. according to the Constitution? According to the Preamble, what are the goals of the Constitution and the American government?   Article I; Section 9 2:  The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it. 3:  No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. Article III; Section 3 1:  Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.  No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.