Summary In the wake of the Pearl Harbor bombings in World War II, about 110,000 Japanese Americans were held in Internment camps for no reason beside the fact they were of Japanese decent. The executive act was signed by Franklin Roosevelt on the second of February in 1942. Japanese Americans were moved to exclusion zones where they were not free to leave.
Japanese Americas that were fortunate enough not to be held in camps faced prejudices. Japanese Americans were excluded from private businesses and restaurants. They were looked upon as the enemy. The camps came to an end around the second of January three years later (1945). |
SectionalismThe Internment camps demonstrate sectionalism in the United States because a group faced prejudice and exclusion. Out of fear the United States imprisoned a whole race of people.
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