Japanese Internment
Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 ordering all Japanese-Americans to be removed from the West coast of the United States of America. This was the direct result of the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan. Which then lead to the relocation of 120,000 people. Of that 120,000 people a majority of them were American citizens. They did this based off of the census of 1940. Which said the majority of people of Japanese descent lived on the west coast. Some states treated Japanese Americans bad after the bombing. Interment camps were located Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, Idaho, and Arkansas. This was considered one of the largest infringements of civil rights in the United States. Many Japanese Americans lost everything when they were forced into these camps. In the early 1945 Japanese-Americans were allowed to return to the West Coast. Although the last internment camp didn’t close until 1946. In 1988 Congress awarded a payment of 20,000 dollars to each survivor of the camp around 73,000 people would receive the payment.
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