1. Japanese Internment

2. Directions For Notes Fold Paper in ½
Write down RED information on RIGHT
BLUE information on LEFT

3. The Fourteenth Amendment: (Read)
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Ratified July 1868

4. The Fifth Amendment: (Read and put into your own words)
No person shall… be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Ratified December 1791

5. Executive Order 9066: Ordered by FDR February 19, 1942
Removal of those of
Japanese ancestry from CA, WA, OR, & AZ.
110,000 Japanese Americans removed from their homes
2/3 – Nisei – Born in this country

7. The Internment Process
Internment was indefinite (people didn’t know when or if they would return home)
Internees reported to local fairgrounds to be counted and shipped to internment camps

8. The Internment Process
Internees were housed in temporary facilities until the camps were built
They were sent on trains from the coast to the desert

9. The Internment Process
Most Japanese Americans sold their property & their possessions
Why do you think they had to sell everything?
Why did they get very low prices for their property?

10. Camp Locations (write down 2-3)
Amache, CO
Gila River, AZ
Heart Mountain, WY
Jerome, AR
Manzanar, CA
Minidoka, ID
Poston, AZ
Rohwer, AR
Topaz, UT
Tule Lake, CA

11. Describe the conditions in the camps:

12. Describe the conditions in the camps:

13. Describe the conditions in the camps:

14. Heart Mountain, WY Morning Flag Salute
Why do you think the internees would salute the flag and fight to be enlisted in the army in WWII?

15. Release
Japanese Americans were released in 1945 & 1946 (after 3-4 years of internment)

16. Fred Korematsu v. United States
Japanese American who refused internment
Arrested and filed a case
Asked: did the President and Congress go to far with E.O 9066?
U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1944 that the need to protect Americans outweighed individual rights
Race based exclusion was justified in a time of war

17. Constitutional Rights
Japanese Internment:
What were the reasons for interning Japanese Americans?
How did internment violate constitutional rights?
Did the need for wartime security justify the internment?

19. Aftermath Apology issued by President Bush in 1988
Congress gives $20,000 to each internee
1983 – Federal Court issued an erasure of Korematsu’s criminal conviction – yet case was not overturned by Supreme Court