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Where were many japanese americans forced to live during world war 1?

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In 1942, Japanese-Americans, including the Nisei of people born i the U.S. from Japanese parents, were ordered by the federal government to move into concentration camps like the sadly famous Internment Camp at Manzanar, California.

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The reason for this internment was the fear of the federal government that the Japanese-Americans became engaged in sabotage or espionage activities because the government was not sure of the allegiance of an ethnic group it practically knew nothing about,

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