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This task is based on the accompanying documents (1-5). The essay you will write will test your ability to work with historical documents. As you analyze these documents, take into account both the source of the document and the author's point of view.

Directions: Read the documents and answer the questions after each document.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the president of the United States ordered that the military could exclude people from strategic areas. This order, intended to prevent spying and sabotage, was used to send about 120,000, Japanese American citizens to relocation centers , or internment camps. These American citizens lost their jobs, homes and pride having to be sent away and live in poor conditions behind armed guard fencing for the remainder of the war, some for as long as four years. Many of those sent away were children. After the war, these citizens of the United States went back to rebuild their lives, with never an apology from the government for what they had endured. It wasn’t until 1988, that then President Reagan, officially apologized on behalf of the United States government to these American citizens for their treatment during World War 2.

Task:By using information from the documents, as well as your knowledge of the topic, write an essay that includes:

  • 1. What caused the internment.

  • 2. How the internment caused the lives of Japanese Americans to change.

  • 3. How Japanese-Americans felt about their treatment by the American government.

  • Include an introduction, conclusion and supporting paragraph(s). Be sure to include specific details. You must also include additional information from your knowledge of social studies.

    1. Document 1:
    Excerpt from President Roosevelt’s speech to the US Congress Dec. 8.1941)Listen and Read the speech
    SOURCE: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrpearlharbor.htm

  • A. What is the feeling of the President as to negotiation with the Japanese after the attack at Pearl Harbor?

  • B. What does the President mean when he says,"A day that will live in infamy?

  • 2. Document 2:
    Government document stating interment
    SOURCE http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/89manzanar/89facts2a.htm
    Read over the May 3, 1942 document from the Western Defense Command And Fourth Army Wartime Civil Control Administration.
  • A. Why did the US government feel it was necessary to evacuate Japanese American citizens from California?

  • B. List TWO items the Japanese were not to take with them to the evacuation locations?
  • C. List THREE items the Japanese Americans were required to take with them.


  • 3. Document 3:
    Editorial Cartoon
    SOURCE: http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist8/editorial4.html

  • A. Who are the citizens in the cartoon and why are they being chosen to be taken away?

  • B. What do the citizens want others to know about whose side they are on during the war?
  • 4. Photograph 4:
    Photograph
    SOURCE:theAtlantic.com

  • A. Why do you think the owner of the store placed a sign in the window stating he was an American?
  • B. What doe you think is happening to his business?
  • C. Scroll down to see other pictures. What do you think of the classroom before and after the internment was announced? Look at the picture of the two men playing a game waiting to leave their apartment. What do you think they are thinking? NOTE TO TEACHERS: Stop before comment section.>
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    5. Document 5:

    Read the letters sent back to Elizabath Willis’ class from students at the internment camp.
    SOURCE: http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/exhibit/willis.html

  • A. What are TWO of the feelings expressed by the students in their letters?