Question

"...it is known that there are Japanese residents of California who have sought to aid the Japanese enemy by way of communicating information..." – Culbert Olson, Governor of California, February 1942 This statement helped influence President Franklin D. Roosevelt to...

Ask Congress to declare war on Japan

Send federal troops to guard California’s capital

Restrict the civil liberties of Japanese Americans

Force most Japanese Americans to leave the United States

Answer 1

Restrict the civil liberties of Japanese Americans

President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which allowed the Secretary of War to designate certain areas as military zones. FDR's executive order set the stage for the relocation of Japanese-ancestry persons to internment camps. By June of 1942, over 100,000 Japanese Americans were sent to such internment camps.