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Internment and the Constitution example #61215

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What was the impact of President Roosevelt's approval of Executive Order 9066?
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More than 100,000 Japanese Americans were ordered to leave their homes and move to internment camps.
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Internment camps were also known as
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Relocation centers
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Fred Korematsu argued that internment was unconstitutional mainly because internees
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did not receive due process.
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Which is one advantage of using Navajo as a military code language?
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Since few people understood it, it was a difficult code to break.
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During World War II, the government argued that it should be able to waive the Fourteenth Amendment, claiming that the Constitution
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did not apply during war time.
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During World War II, the US government sent people of Japanese ancestry to internment camps based on
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whether they lived in an exclusion zone.
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Which of the following best describes one reason that thousands of Japanese Americans voluntarily joined the US military during World War II?
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to show their loyalty to the US
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Who was Fred Korematsu?
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an American citizen who lived in California
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How did the Navajo serve in World War II?
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as code talkers in the Pacific
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Which of the following best describes what World War II internees faced when they returned home?
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property damage and discrimination
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In the Supreme Court case Korematsu v. United States, the court decided that the Fourteenth Amendment
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could be waived in a time of emergency such as war.
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Why were Japanese Americans living on the West Coast interned after the Pearl Harbor attack?
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Many people feared the presence of Japanese spies after Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor.
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How did President Truman's Executive Order 9981 show progress toward racial equality?
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The order ended segregation in the military.
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Who issued Executive Order 9066?
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Franklin Roosevelt
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In Korematsu v. US (1944), the Supreme Court ruled that in a time of great "emergency and peril," the internment of Japanese Americans was .
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constitutional