Drawing on this excerpt, and the information you learned in the lesson about the manzanar internment camp, draw two connections between the ideas in this excerpt and the lessons. explain each of these connections using evidence from the excerpt and what you've learned in the lessons. your response should be 3–4 paragraphs in length.

About two-thirds of all Japanese Americans interned at Manzanar were American citizens by birth. President Franklin Roosevelt's executive order took freedom away from these American citizens without a fair due process. This was because of people's false belief that everyone of Japanese descent had something to do with this, and a somewhat false fear that the Japanese army was plotting something else and would attack America again.

Manzanar’s internees suffered from the harsh desert environment. Temperatures were as high as 110ºF in the summer and frequently dropped below freezing in the winter. This, combined with "The temporary, tar paper-covered barracks, the guard towers" showed how badly the Japanese Americans were treated in the internment camps.  

This was also a form of racism because they were judged because of how they looked and a false belief that they would do something wrong. They were also judged for something their "mother country" did, and they may not have agreed with what had happened.

overnment is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.