When tension grew between the United States and Japan, the United States was concerned Japanese-Americans would favor Japan over the United States. Because of this, over 127,000 Japanese-Americans were forced by the government to go to internment camps. President Roosevelt signed an order that forced them to go. Japanese-Americans had to go to the camps because they were accused of favoring Japan over the United States, even though ⅔ of them had never been to japan because they were born in the United States. Even Japanese-American veterans that served for the U.S. had to go. The U.S. government feared that the Japanese-Americans were going to harm the U.S. There were 10 camps total in the states of Idaho, California, Colorado, Wyoming, Arkansas, and Arizona. This created additional problems on the west coast.
Posters were pasted on store windows of Japanese-American towns, telling them how to evacuate. Families had to sell their homes, stores, and almost everything in them that they owned for a fraction of what they were worth because of the time left they had to leave. They had no idea if their property would survive.
Internment camp location
map- Blue are the states with
Internment camps.
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