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Arriving In America
The Japanese immigrants began to arrive in America. San Francisco, California. It relates to the question because if the Japanese hadn't come to America, there would be no internment camps in the first place. -
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The Timespan For the Events That Lead Up to Japanese Internment Camps
The timespan for all the events that lead up to Japanese internment camps. -
Japanese Exclusion League
The Japanese Exclusion League was founded in San Francisco, California. The League is a group of dozens of business interests with a goal of excluding the Japanese from their business because the Japanese were working for lower wages. It relates to the Essential Question because it gives the Americans more of a reason to exclude them and relocate them. -
Gentlemen's Agreement
President Roosevelt decided to negotiate with Japan to tell them to stop issuing passports to laborers, because he thought he would offend Japan by just closing up his country to Japanese immigrants. This became known as the Gentlemen's Agreement. This relates to the Essential Question because this event might have angered Japan just a bit to possibly harm America, and lead suspicion to the Japanese Americans. -
The Alien Land Law
The Alien Land Law barred purchase of land by immigrants who couldn't become American citizens. That basically is saying the Japanese Americans couldn't buy any land. This relates to the Essential Question because it was start of preventing the Japanese Americans from having certain rights the Americans have. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese (not Japanese Americans) bombed the Pearl Harbor because it had all of Americas best ship docked there. This relates to the Essential Question because this is the event that really caused the Americans to get suspicious about the Japanese Americans and send them to internment camp. Without this happening they wouldn't have been sent to an internment camp. -
The Speech
The mayor of Los Angeles gave a speech calling for a round up of all Japanese Americans so they don't try to harm America. This relates to the Essential Question because this is the start of the Americans trying to send the Japanese to separate place. Though, they aren't sending them to the camps yet. -
Executive Order 9066
President Roosevelt signs the Executive Order 9066, authorizing the relocation of the relocation of all people with Japanese ancestry. This relates to the Essential Question because now it is for sure, that all Japanese Americans will be relocated no matter what the Japanese try to do about it. -
E-Day!
This is the day all Japanese Americans to pack their belongings (only things that they could carry themselves) to go to the internment camps. It relates to the Essential Question because E-Day is the day that they went to the camps. -
Transferring to the Internment Camps
This is the day that all the Japanese Americans were sorted out to go to one of the ten internment camps. This relates to the Essential Question because they were about to leave to the internment camps. -
The Moab
The Moab (one of the most secured internment camps for troublemakers) is shut down by the WRA (War Relocation Authorities) and tranferred it's people to a similar camp in Arizona (didn't say why). This relates to the Essential Question because the Moab is one of the internment camps that was the most secure and held the most people.
