Destanie Stow Japanese Amer. Intern. Camps
IV. Hardships of Camp Life
V. Conclusion
I. Introduction
III. Relocation Process
II. Historical Background
C. Environment
D. Food
B. Lack of Privacy
C .Frenzy of Moving
B. Assembly Centers
A. Intern. Camps
- Selling Items
1.Packing
2.Largest Assembly Center
1.Types of Housing
- Locations
2.Population in camps
A. Attack on Pearl Harbor
B. Government Response
- When?
Attention Getter
Thesis Statement
- 2,403 deaths
a. 8a.m. Dec. 7,1941
- U.S. enters war
a. List of packing items
a. Sell what they can't carry
Race tracks/ fairgrounds
b. List of camp sites
a. Disloyals to Tule Lake
- Army style grub
- Too cold in the winter or too hot in the summer
"' As far as I'm concerned, I was born here, and according to the Constitution that I studied in school that I had the Bill of Rights that should have backed me up. And until the very minute I got onto the evacuation train, I say, 'It can't be! I says, 'How can they do that to an American citizen?'"
A. Buildings
- Security
E. Emotional Impact
- Freedom
- Community Relationships
- Mens Purpose
- Four or five families squeezed into a shared tar-papered barracks
- Executive Order 9066
a. Date of order
b. Excludes anyone to be a danger
c. 120,000 taken to camps
d. War Relocation Authority
Once Japanese attacked the Americans the government decided to take action and relocate the Japanese-Americans. They were taken to Internment Camps where they will struggle.