Japanese Immigration Dbq Essay

In 1924 the congress passed a new Immigration Act effectively ending all Japanese immigration to the U.S., but this did not violate the right of the Japanese Americans in World War II. (Doc A) Document A, C, D, E, and F all support on why the U.S. government did not violate their rights. There were several causes of the internment but the main cause of the internment was that the “Japanese naval and air forces attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, bringing the U.S. into World War II.” ( Japanese American Internment) After the attack the Japanese were not leaving they grew a Japanese American community. This ment that they could no longer trust the Japanese and decided to pass the Immigration Act. According to the Japanese American Internment document, while trying to pass the act they forced more than 110,000 Japanese Americans living along the West Coast into internment camps for the duration of the war. Also in the Japanese American Internment document President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942. This gave the wa department the authority any part of the country a restricted military area, and
“These camps were surrounded by barbed wire and military police. Along with loss of freedom, family's shared a single room (often without plumbing and little heat), ate in communal dining halls,endured harsh weather, and suffered mental and physical stress of being confined against their will.”( Japanese American Internment) That means that many people lost their freedom and it also lead to many deaths and sickness. People were not getting much food, education and health care. With Fred Korematsu arguing against the constitution many people start to leave the United States to start rebuilding their lives. When people started to go back to their own countries the war started to die down due to the immigrants