Japanese Internment & Justice

Reading: http://goo.gl/bpQFI Essential Questions:

 

1. What does the word "internment" mean?

- The word internment means to incarcerate someone during war.

2. Why were Japanese Americans interned in Manzanar?

- Being that the Japanese-Americans bombed Pearl Harbor, this led to them becoming the enemy to the U.S. About 100,000 people were told they had to leave their home because they were Japanese-American then evacuated to the Manzanar Internment Camp.

3. Why were Japanese internment policies wrong?
- The Japanese internment policies were injust because it was more then taking away their freedom, they took away they job, their businesses, along with their houses.