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Japanese Internment Camps
Designed By: Sami

1. Why did President Roosevelt give orders to construct the internment camps? To find the answer, go to http://www.lawbuzz.com/tyranny/snow_falling/internment_camps.htm.
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2. The internment camp houses were built hurriedly. Go here http://oz.net/~cyu/internment/gallery.html to see a picture of one. How would your life be different if you had to live here?
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3. Read the evacuees description of Topaz. Write in your own words what the camp must have been like.  How would you have felt about being there?  To find out, go here: http://historytogo.utah.gov/japanese.html
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4. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt wrote an essay for Collier’s Magazine. In it she wrote about her feelings of the Japanese Internment Camps. Read the article and tell in a few words how she felt. Go here to find the article. http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/anthropology74/ce2.htm
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5. What were the ten locations of the internment camps? To learn more about this, go to http://oz.net/~cyu/internment/camps.html
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6. Ralph Lazo, who was a non Japanese American, voluntarily interned in the Manzanar Concentration Camp for what reason? To figure this out, go to http://www.english.und.ac.za/English1B/more_manzanar.htm
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7. President Bill Clinton did what to honor the Japanese Americans that were in the Internment Camps? To learn more about this, go to http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/new/html/Mon_Nov_13_092635_2000.html
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8. Go to http://oz.net/~cyu/internment/poster.html. How would you feel if you were a Japanese American receiving that notice?
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9. Looking at the map at http://www.csuohio.edu/art_photos/map.html, on which side of the U.S. are most of the internment camps located? Why do you suppose so?

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10. How did the Japanese Americans feel when they heard about the bombing of Pearl Harbor? To figure out the answer, go to http://edweb.sdsu.edu/sdhs/journal/spring93/chapter1.htm.
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