Korematsu
Name: Neriah Rose Burden
Date: 2/3/15
Graded Assignment
Korematsu v. the United States (1944)
Use the background information and the primary sources in the Graded Assignment: Primary Sources sheet to answer the following questions.
(2 points)
1. What did Fred T. Korematsu do that resulted in his arrest and conviction?
Answer: He refused to report to a Japanese internment camp in California after Pearl Harbor. He then sued the government claiming discrimination. The case eventually made it to the Supreme Court and is one of the most famous Supreme Court cases.
(2 points)
2. According to the first paragraph from the excerpts of the majority opinion, what did the U.S. government believe some Japanese Americans would do if they were allowed to remain free on the West Coast?
Answer:
Many people thought that Japanese Americans would become spies, and were potential threats.
(2 points)
3. The majority of the court believed that compulsory exclusion of large groups of citizens from their homes was okay in what situation?
Answer:
The court ruled that it was okay in cases of Military Necessity. “Compulsory exclusion of large groups of citizens from their homes, except under circumstances of direct emergency and peril, is inconsistent with our basic governmental institutions. But when under conditions of modern warfare our shores are threatened by hostile forces, the power to protect must be commensurate with the threatened danger.” So basically their reasoning was that citizenship has its privileges but also has some responsibilities so when the military was rounding up all the citizens of Japanese descent, they had the duty to obey the responsibility of American Citizenship.
(2 points)
4. What did the dissenting justices think about the power of military authorities?
Answer:
They didn’t do anything; there wasn’t even a vote to see whether or not people agreed with what happened, or if it should happen.
(2 points)
5. The dissenting opinion raises the fact
Date: 2/3/15
Graded Assignment
Korematsu v. the United States (1944)
Use the background information and the primary sources in the Graded Assignment: Primary Sources sheet to answer the following questions.
(2 points)
1. What did Fred T. Korematsu do that resulted in his arrest and conviction?
Answer: He refused to report to a Japanese internment camp in California after Pearl Harbor. He then sued the government claiming discrimination. The case eventually made it to the Supreme Court and is one of the most famous Supreme Court cases.
(2 points)
2. According to the first paragraph from the excerpts of the majority opinion, what did the U.S. government believe some Japanese Americans would do if they were allowed to remain free on the West Coast?
Answer:
Many people thought that Japanese Americans would become spies, and were potential threats.
(2 points)
3. The majority of the court believed that compulsory exclusion of large groups of citizens from their homes was okay in what situation?
Answer:
The court ruled that it was okay in cases of Military Necessity. “Compulsory exclusion of large groups of citizens from their homes, except under circumstances of direct emergency and peril, is inconsistent with our basic governmental institutions. But when under conditions of modern warfare our shores are threatened by hostile forces, the power to protect must be commensurate with the threatened danger.” So basically their reasoning was that citizenship has its privileges but also has some responsibilities so when the military was rounding up all the citizens of Japanese descent, they had the duty to obey the responsibility of American Citizenship.
(2 points)
4. What did the dissenting justices think about the power of military authorities?
Answer:
They didn’t do anything; there wasn’t even a vote to see whether or not people agreed with what happened, or if it should happen.
(2 points)
5. The dissenting opinion raises the fact