Use PBS' Children of the Camp website to answer the following questions:
- What was the purpose of Executive Order 9066?
- Of the 120,000 people put in internment camps, what percentage of them were children?
- What were these people accused of?
- What was the COMBINED total of people interned in Gila River, Manzanar, and Tule Lake during their peak years of population (add the 3 together)?
- Which of the camps were located the furthest EAST (look at an atlas or map)?
- Speculate why most of the camps were located in the WESTERN part of the country?
- How many hours were residents of Terminal Island given to gather their things before they were relocated to a camp in February 1942?
- What did the bill HR 442, passed on August 10, 1988 provide the former internees with?
- Do you AGREE or DISAGREE with HR 442? Explain your opinion.
- What other group of people were contained during the war and who interned them?