Question

Using Evidence from the opinions of the korematsu v. The United States case, write a letter to be read on the 50th anniversary of the civil liberties act of 1988 which explains why the US government issued this apology and payments to the survivors of the interment camps.

Answer 1

Answer:

I'm not going to put my entire letter in the answer but I will give you the first half of my letter. The rest your gonna have to write yourself.

Explanation:

50 years ago, after the Pearl Harbor incident, on February 19, 1942 our government took nearly 112,000 of our U.S. citizens who ethnically identified as Japanese and stripped them of their homes, businesses, and most personal belongings and forced them to live in internment camps for nearly three years because they thought that among the U.S.’s Japanese citizens there were more spies. After the remaining Japanese citizens were released and forty years had passed the United States government formally apologized. In that effort to formally apologize they passed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 which authorized a $20,000 payment that was to be paid forward to every living survivor of the internment camps. The legislation said the government actions were based on “race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership" as opposed to actual national security reasons like they had thought before hand.