Question

Which minority group was negatively affected by the Supreme Court's decision on Korematsu v. United States?

1) Native Americans
2) African Americans
3) Latinx Americans
4) Asian Americans

Answer 1

Option (4), Japanese Americans, a subset of Asian Americans, were affected by the Supreme Court's decision in Korematsu v. United States, which upheld the wartime internment policy.

Step-by-step explanation:

The minority group negatively affected by the Supreme Court's decision on Korematsu v. United States was Asian Americans, specifically Japanese Americans. During World War II, following President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066, about 120,000 Japanese Americans, the majority of whom were U.S. citizens, were forcibly relocated to internment camps.

The Supreme Court, in a controversial decision, upheld the government's internment policy on December 18, 1944, as a measure of national security, albeit later acknowledging the error in subsequent years.