Japanese Internment Camps Research Paper

673 Words3 Pages
The American attitudes towards Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans prior to the bombing of the Pearl Harbor were negative due to racism towards Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans because most Americans were not able to differentiate between the two different cultures. Japanese-Americans relocated to internment camps during WWII because Anti-Japanese paranoia increased due to a high level of Japanese culture in the West Coast; the Japanese invasions of Americans were feared and accounted as a security risk. Japanese internment camps were located in inhospitable areas with barbed wire borders and guards watching atop from a tower; inside, the Japanese shared small living spaces but there was school available for the children. Japanese-Americans were treated unfairly and unruly in the internment camps – they were treated like prisoners. The effects of the Japanese Internment had many people to move eastward to other parts of the U.S…show more content…
Anti-Japanese paranoia was increased due to a high level of Japanese culture in the West Coast; the Japanese invasions of Americans were feared and accounted as a security risk. Roosevelt decided to take action on the Japanese-Americans. So Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066, it authorized the war Department to designate “military areas” and then exclude anyone from them whom it felt to be a danger. On January 29th, 1942, U.S. Attorney General, Francis Biddle, set a number of security areas on the west coast in California. He stated that all enemy aliens should be removed from the security areas. Then, a couple of weeks later Roosevelt allowed the construction of relocation camps. A couple of months later, ten permanent camps were constructed to house over one hundred thousand Japanese-Americans. Therefore, causing many of the Japanese-Americans being deprived of their homes, jobs, and their constitutional and legal
Open Document