Japanese Internment Camps

Japanese Americans were interned as a result of what major event?

• Germany invading Poland

• Pearl Harbor

• The Appeasement Policy

• the death of Franklin Roosevelt

What was the government act that sent Japanese Americans to the internment camps?

• Executive Order 255

• Executive Order 9066

• Executive Order 99

• Defcon 4

According to Order 9066, which people on the west coast were to be relocated?

• People of Japanese ancestry

• People of Hawaiian ancestry

• People of Native American ancestry

• People of French ancestry

Which president executed Order 9066?

• Herbert Hoover

• Calvin Coolidge

• Donald Trump

• Franklin Roosevelt

True or False: Germans and Italians were sent to internment camps, but not at the same scale as the Japanese

• True

• False

What percentage of Japanese people put in internment camps were U.S. citizens?

• 1/3 (33%)

• 1/1 (100%)

• 2/3 (66%)

• 1/4 (25%)

When Japanese Americans had to report to the camps what did most of the families  have to do? 

• Sale or store all of their belongings because they could only take what they could carry in a suitcase 
• Find a neighbor or family member to leave their children with 
• Give all of their money and property to the US government 
• Enlist in the US Army

Japanese Americans had plenty of time to get their stuff packed before they were taken to the camps

• True

• False

Where were most of the internment camps built?

• in isolated areas such as swamps and deserts 
• in cities out west
• only on the east coast
• in Tennessee 

Around how many Japanese-Americans were forced to move to internment camps during World War II?

• 3,000

• 15,000

• 40,000

• 120,000