After the Royal Japanese marines attacks on Pearl Harbor The US citizens felt panic, especially the West Coast resident, so reprisals were taken against the Japanese who lived in the western part of the country, in the states of California, Arizona, Oregon and Washington.
Concentration camps for Japanese in the United States accommodated some 120,000 people, mostly ethnic Japanese, more than half of whom were American and Japanese citizens from Latin America, mainly from Brazil and Peru, who were deported under pressure from the US government, in establishments designed for that purpose in the interior of the country, during 1942 and 1948.
The objective was to move them from their habitual residence, mostly on the west coast, to facilities built under extreme security measures. The fields were closed with barbed wire, guarded by armed guards, and located in places far from any population center. Attempts to leave the camp sometimes resulted in the dejection of the inmates.
For all of the above, American citizens of Japanese origin felt like prisoners of war, hostages of a situation they did not choose and in which they did not act.
Fillmore's letter was full of diplomacy, commercial ability and firmness, the president always referred to the Japanese authority as "your majesty", this represented the diplomatic recognition of the one who governed Japan at the time, besides that, he also treated him very kindly so that Japan agreed to trade with the United States, and at the same time exhort him firmly to abandon the old policies that restricted them from doing business with foreign countries on the one hand, and open up to new forms of trade, explaining how, when and what they could trade.
true, although he did a little bit for civil rights, he was responsible for japenese internment camps which were pretty screwed up
The Stamp Act of 1765 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.
