Japanese American Relocation Research Paper

The Japanese American Relocation in the U.S. was considered a dark time in which American will forever be ashamed of. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, a rash of fear about national security was launched. Many believed that there were Japanese spies in America, so President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066 that would relocate all Japanese-Americans to designated areas in which they could be “protected” from harm of Americans who were against those of Japanese race. This order would intern around 110,000 to 120,000 Japanese-Americans. They lived in overcrowded areas and necessary supplies were often insufficient to meet the necessities of the internees. In 1942 a riot broke out that resulted in the death of two people and nine were wounded. One of the internees had said “ "If we were put there for our protection, why were the guns at the guard towers pointed inward, instead of outward?" Manifesting the realization that they were not placed in those camps to protect them but to protect non-Japanese Americans.

The Japanese American Relocation in the U.S.

is taught in schools today because it is a perfect example of how civil rights were violated in the U.S. By American placing Japanese-Americans in internment camps, they were violating the rights of U.S. citizens. America was violating section 1 of the 14th Amendment which states “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property...” Meaning that the United States had broken this amendment by removing Japanese-Americans from their homes and limiting their freedom by placing them in internment

camps.

What we can learn from the Japanese American Relocation is not to believe all rumors that you hear. In modern times, individuals spread rumors that state that someone is planning on doing this grand change but may not actually be so grand. This lesson is quite important due to the fact that when the Japanese-Americans were relocated, they were questioned on their loyalty to the United States. According to the article “Japanese-American Relocation in the U.S. During World War II” it states “an internee who, when told that the Japanese were put in those camps for their own protection, countered, "If we were put there for our protection, why were the guns at the guard towers pointed inward, instead of outward?" This manifests that the lesson of don’t believe all rumors that you hear due to the fact that when an internee was told that they were relocated to protect them from anti-Japanese Americans, the internee is implying that Japanese-Americans were not interned for their protection, but more for the protection of non-Japanese citizens.

The Japanese American Relocation in the United States was a time in which America made a few mistakes out of fear after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They relocated people who were even 1/16th Japanese. With time, America realized the mistake that it had made decades ago. They realized that they had violated the rights of the Japanese-Americans were relocated. America has learned from its mistake. They even gave a certain amount of money to those were internees.