AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Each internee got an official apology letter from the president.
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Each internee got $20, 000 in reparations
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Each internee got a special medal of recognition
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Each internee got free housing and college tuition
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Detailed explanation-1: -This law gave surviving Japanese Americans $20, 000 in reparations and a formal apology by President Reagan for their incarceration during World War II. But its passage did not happen overnight. It took years to turn the redress movement into legislation.
Detailed explanation-2: -A poll from the American Institute of Public Opinion in March 1942 shows that 93 percent of Americans were in favor of the removal of Japanese immigrants and 59 percent supported the removal of Japanese American citizens.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Office of Redress Administration (ORA) was established in 1988 and was charged with administering a ten-year program to provide a tax-free restitution payment of $20, 000 to eligible individuals of Japanese ancestry for the fundamental injustices of the evacuation, relocation, and internment during World War II.
Detailed explanation-4: -§ 1989b et seq.) is a United States federal law that granted reparations to Japanese Americans who had been wrongly interned by the United States government during World War II and to “discourage the occurrence of similar injustices and violations of civil liberties in the future".