Ms. Buchanan’s Social Studies Page

For the next two days you are going to research Japanese American internment camps in the United States during World War II.  You will be using this information to help you create your book.  Please take notes as you read this information. 

 

Questions to answer as you explore: 

Go to:   http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Japanese_internment

 1) How many Japanese/ Japanese Americans were relocated?

2) What was Executive Order 9066, and when did it become law?

Read the “Compensation” section.

3) What items could Japanese Americans bring with them to the camps?

4) What would Japanese Americans do with the rest of their belongings?

Go to:    http://bss.sfsu.edu/internment/concentrationcamps.html

5) What were the names of the camps?

6) On which side of the country were most of the camps located?

Other sites to visit:

http://www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/japan/camp.html

http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/anthropology74/cet.htm

http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/aas372/

http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/exhibit/transport.html

7) Why were Japanese Americans sent to these camps?

Describe life in the internment camps.

9) What were some of the occupations Japanese Americans had before and after their incarceration?

10) How would you feel towards the U.S. government if this had happened to you?
 

To see pictures:

http://www.learncalifornia.org/doc.asp?id=744

To read letters from people in the camps:

http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/exhibit/children.html

http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/exhibit/willis.html

http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/aas372/essay.html

http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/exhibit/housing.html