USA HISTORY

When Japanese Americans had to report to the camps what did most of the families have to do?

(A) ** Sale or store all of their belongings because they could only take what they could carry in a suitcase

(B) Find a neighbor or family member to leave their children with

(C) Give all of their money and property to the US government

(D) Enlist in the US Army

Concept note-1: -Reparations. The last Japanese internment camp closed in March 1946. President Gerald Ford officially repealed Executive Order 9066 in 1976, and in 1988, Congress issued a formal apology and passed the Civil Liberties Act awarding $20, 000 each to over 80, 000 Japanese Americans as reparations for their treatment.

Concept note-2: -Conditions at Japanese American internment camps were spare, without many amenities. The camps were ringed with barbed-wire fences and patrolled by armed guards, and there were isolated cases of internees being killed. Generally, however, camps were run humanely.

Concept note-3: -Many Americans worried that citizens of Japanese ancestry would act as spies or saboteurs for the Japanese government. Fear-not evidence-drove the U.S. to place over 127, 000 Japanese-Americans in concentration camps for the duration of WWII. Over 127, 000 United States citizens were imprisoned during World War II.

Concept note-4: -To make matters even worse, Japanese Canadians lost almost all their property, with little to no compensation – the government had sold it off during the War, and used the proceeds to finance the internment. It was only on April 1, 1949 that Japanese Canadians were again allowed to move freely across Canada.