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Read the following prompt and type your response in the space provided.

Read the excerpt from "When Fear Was Stronger Than Justice":


It all happened so quickly. The Japanese on the West Coast of the United States had made lives for themselves in spite of discrimination, but on December 7, 1941, everything changed. To panicked people after the attack on Pearl Harbor, every Japanese could be a potential spy, ready and willing to assist in an invasion that was expected at any moment. Many political leaders, army officers, newspaper reporters, and ordinary people came to believe that everyone of Japanese ancestry, including American citizens born in the United States, needed to be removed from the West Coast.

In February 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order that moved nearly 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans into 10 isolated relocation centers in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming. The temporary, tar paper-covered barracks, the guard towers, and most of the barbed-wire fences are gone now, but the people who spent years of their lives in the centers will never forget them.

Use the information in this excerpt, and the information you learned in the lesson about the Manzanar internment camp, to draw at least two logical connections between the ideas in the two. Explain each of these connections, using evidence to support your ideas. Your response should be 3–4 paragraphs in length.

Answer 1

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.

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Answer 2

As a consequence of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, which prompted the United States to enter World War II, in February, 1942, President Eisenhower issued an Executive Order that authorized not only the creation of restricted military areas but also that of concentration camps for Japanese immigrants and Japanese-American citizens. Approximately 120 000 people of all ages were imprisoned in these camps in the states of Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, andWyoming.

Although most of these camps have disappeared today, one of them located some 230 miles to the north of Los Angeles, known as Manzanar, has been preserved . These camps were continually watched by the military, from watch towers equipped with machine guns and search lights; they were surrounded with barbed wire fences, and the barracks were made of thin plywood covered with tar paper. A replica of one of the watchtowers and the barracks can be visited in the present time.

Although from the very constructoin of these camps efforts have been made to deny their existence or to disguise them as facilities to protect the interns from some horror, People who were imprisoned them for some time between May, 1942, and August, 1945 and remain alive demanded that the government mantain Manzanar and open it to the public as a historical center in order to preserve the memory of what occurred there, and hold special annual visiits in the course of whicn it is possible to pear from their own lips what happened to therm while they were prisoners. There is also photographic testimony of the life in these camps.