Japanese Internment - Check for Understanding

In this excerpt, President Clinton is apologizing for ---

• the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act

• the verdict of the Sacco and Vanzetti Trial

• the hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee

• the internment of Japanese Americans

Answer explanation

In 1993, Clinton expressed his sincere apology for the actions that denied Japanese Americans their fundamental liberties. He acknowledged that the nation's actions were rooted in racial prejudice, wartime hysteria, and a lack of political leadership.

The rights of citizens under the ​Fourth (4th) and​ (a)   Amendments to the ​Constitution were violated by the U.S. government when it authorized the establishment of ​ (b)   camps for ​ Japanese Americans.

• fourteenth
• internment
• second
• fifteenth
• law
• interment
• Jewish

Answer explanation

On March 29, 1942, under the authority of the executive order, DeWitt issued Public Proclamation No. 4, which began the forced evacuation and detention of Japanese-American West Coast residents on a 48-hour notice. Only a few days prior to the proclamation, on March 21, Congress had passed Public Law 503, which made violation of Executive Order 9066 a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in prison and a $5,000 fine.

Identify the region on the map where Executive Order 9066 forbade Japanese Americans from living in during internment.

Answer explanation

The security and safety of the West Coast was the American government's primary concern when asserting their right to remove Japanese Americans in 1942.

Reorder the following events in chronological order.

• President Clinton apologizes for Japanese Internment

• President Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066

• Japanese Empire attacks the U.S. at Pearl Harbor

• President Roosevelt declares war on Japan

• President Reagan issues the Civil Liberties Act of 1988

Read this excerpt from Justice Murphy of the Supreme Court in 1944.

Which actions did the U.S. Government take to address the problem in the excerpt? Select TWO correct answers.

• They passed a law in 1988 acknowledging Internment as an unjust act.

• In 1988, they provided $20,000 cash payment to each person who was in internment camps.

• In 1988, President Clinton issued a Congressional Medal of Honor to Bruce Lee.

Answer explanation

In 1988, Congress passed, and President Reagan signed, Public Law 100-383 – the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 – that acknowledged the injustice of "internment," apologized for it, and provided a $20,000 cash payment to each person who was incarcerated.