USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

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Justice Robert H. Jackson gave the dissenting opinion in Korematsu v. United States, 1944. Which event was the focus of this Supreme Court case?

(A) supporting the lend-lease act

(B) implementing the Marshall Plan

(C) segregation of African Americans

(D) ** internment of Japanese Americans

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to uphold the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast Military Area during World War II.

Concept note-2: -Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944) was a U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld Japanese internment camps.

Concept note-3: -Jackson wrote: “Korematsu was born on our soil, of parents born in Japan. The Constitution makes him a citizen of the United States by nativity and a citizen of California by residence. No claim is made that he is not loyal to this country.