What did Japanese-Americans have to give up when they were sent to internment camps? Use a graphic organizer to compare and contrast life for Japanese-Americans before and during WWII.

Instead of internment camps, what could the government do to protect itself and its legal immigrant citizens during a war?
This is for Social Studies

From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps. Enacted in reaction to Pearl Harbor and the ensuing war, the Japanese internment camps are now considered one of the most atrocious violations of American civil rights in the 20th century.

The internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans in WWII is one of the darkest and most controversial chapters of

American history. After the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, Japanese Americans were

detained without trial and without committing a crime, solely based on the assumption that it was necessary for national

security. In February 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 allowing for the creation of military zones

that could exclude certain civilians. In practice, this led to the forced relocation and internment of more than 110,000

Japanese and Japanese Americans who were placed in internment camps for the duration of the war. Wartime hysteria

and racial prejudice pushed the country’s leadership to violate rights guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution. Even when

these injustices were brought to the country’s highest court in the 1944 case Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme

Court justices ruled that “military necessity” outweighed the civil rights of Japanese Americans.

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step-by-step explanation:

look at the x and y axis