Unit 3 - Japanese-American Internment

During World War II 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans were removed from the West Coast of the United States. Roughly 110,000 of those were sent to hastily built camps called "War Relocation Centers". This authorization by Franklin Roosevelt greatly broke the Japanese-American citizens constitutional rights due to unnecessary fear of the Americans.

After the attack on Pearl Harbour, the U.S. government feared their own Japanese citizens would aid the Japanese military so they sent all the Japanese who were living on the West Coast to live in Relocation and Assembly Centers. The Americans breached the constitutional rights of the Japanese American citizens and singled them out. Over 112,000 residents of Japanese ancestry of which two-thirds were U.S. citizens by birth.

The Americans feared the Japanese and singled them out due to their heritage. This fear of a Japanese attack on America led to the breach of over 120,000 peoples constitutional rights. The Americans didn't care about what kind of people they were they only cared about their roots and their own safety.