Use PBS' Children of the Camp website to answer the following questions:

  1. What was the purpose of Executive Order 9066?
  2. Of the 120,000 people put in internment camps, what percentage of them were children?
  3. What were these people accused of?
  4. 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)?
  5.  Which of the camps were located the furthest EAST (look at an atlas or map)?
  6. Speculate why most of the camps were located in the WESTERN part of the country?
  7.  How many hours were residents of Terminal Island given to gather their things before they were relocated to a camp in February 1942?
  8. What did the bill HR 442, passed on August 10, 1988 provide the former internees with?
  9. Do you AGREE or DISAGREE with HR 442? Explain your opinion.
  10. What other group of people were contained during the war and who interned them?

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