Reasons For and Against the Relocation of People of Japanese Descent

Task: Review Documents A-B to list reasons for and against the relocation of people of Japanese descent. Be sure to cite your sources.
FOR Internment

AGAINST Internment

Reason

Source

Reason

Source

The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese forces on December 7, 1941, created suspicion among the government of Americaabouto all Japanese aliens

Japanese relocation during world war 2; National archive

* Congress did not authorize the relocation

Confinement and ethnicity:an overview of world war 2 Japanese American

* Before the outbreak of world war 2, the federal bureau of investigation had identified Japanese aliens who were suspected to be a potential enemy of the agent and had already been kept under surveillance

Japanese relocation during world war 2; National archive

* The entire evacuation was unconstitutional and a violation of American civil rights

Lordsburg internment pow cam: Historical society of Mexico Smithson institute

* Dewitt, the leader of the western defense command, accused people with Japanese decency of sabotage, such as damaged power lines

Japanese relocation during world war 2; National archive

* This was the encouragement of racism and discrimination against Americans.

Japanese-American incarceration during world war 2,2022, Jan 22

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* The Japanese Americans had not shown any disloyalty to America

Japanese relocation during world war 2; National archives

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The evacuation was not related to military necessity in any way.

Relocation sites J.Burton, F. Lord and R. Lord

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Task: Review Document C. Given that the store owner's identity is Japanese American in Document, C. Write a 5+ sentence paragraph describing your experiences.
Short Story

Title:Loss Of Financial Stability

I'm the third generation of my family to be in America. I was born here and thus an American citizen by birth. Had been a resident of the west coast since my childhood. I had a store where I sold groceries and cereals. On 1942, March 29, I received the news that Dewitt had issued a
The public proclamation that all Japanese Americans had to evacuate the west coast area and be detained. On the 1st of April, we were carried together with other people and taken to an internment camp in California forcibly. We left our belongings and businesses with no one to care for them. There waof s no hopes prof proclamation the lost busaapappealealppealing for the return of the properties. In the camp, we would struggle to obtain work, and we were paid very little money. We were living from hand to mouth.

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Task: Review Documents D-E to complete the following prompts.
Summarize the majority opinion in 1 sentence

It is constitutional for the government to relocate people based on their country of origin during times of war.

Summarize the dissenting opinion in 1 sentence

It is NOT Constitutional ...