Japanese Interment Camps

1. Japanese Interment Camps By: Kirk Eaton

2. Why were they hated • Because of there ancestors • Californians hated them too • Economy • Their actions in Pearl Harbor

3. What they had to go through • Left their business and were taken to court • Large economic losses • Relocation • Put into Internment Camps

4. Internment Camps • Officially called relocation camps • Overcrowded and had bad living condition • Leadership in the camps were only provided to the Japanese born in America • Canada had camps for Japanese too • They also made some of them work instead of the camps • They worked on roads and plantations

5. Internment Camps cont. • There were a total of 10 camps • These camps were in: • California • Idaho • Utah • Arizona • Wyoming • Colorado • Arkansas

6. During the camps • Leadership in the camps were only given to the Japanese that were born in America • Some were let go if they went to the US Army • Only 1,200 took this offer • Out of all of the people that were sent to the camps, there were only a total of two cases made

7. After the Camps • The last camp was closed in 1945 • In 1988, the government paid each survivor $20,000 • In all the government paid a total of 60,000 dollars • Canadians also paid their survivors • They paid a total of 21,000 Canadian dollars

8. Content • Lesson Learned • That everyone in America should be equal • What was done about the situation • There was an argument about the fifth amendment and congress • What should be done so that this does not occur in the future • We should stop blaming other people and take care of things ourselves

9. Bibliography “Japanese-American Internment Camps”. Book Mice.8/24/2010.<http://www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/japan/camp.html> “Children of the Camps”. Internment History. 1999.net.10/6/2010.http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/index.html Ross, Shmue. “Japanese Relocation Centers”. Infoplease. 2000. 10/6/2010. <http://www.infoplease.com/spot/internment1.html#axzz0ylIFWCdW>