Executive Order 9066 The Japanese immigrants first came to the Pacific Northwest in 1880s. The Japanese immigrated to the United States to find peace and prosperity, they wanted a better future for their child and their selves. As the Japanese immigrants arrived at their destination they did not care if they got paid little but they were discriminated and the Americans were afraid that the Japanese would take their jobs away. Back in the Anti-Japanese the previous President days demanded the exile of any immigrants who did not learn any English in five years. Twenty states carried out “Americanization” plans to uphold what the California Commission on housing and immigration calls “the language of English.” America in 1918 the president Theodore Roosevelt was showing nativism at that time that actually gave fear that the waves of the European immigrants were weakening American culture and threatening them which is the national unity. The Pearl Harbor attack was caused by the Japanese forces and was on December 7, 1941 by Honolulu, Hawaii. On the day of December 7, 1941 on Sunday morning, a few hundred of the Japanese fighter planes flew to the base and destroyed about 20 American naval vessel,…show more content… Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066. When Franklin signed the Executive Order 9066 it approved the removal of any body from military areas. After that had happened the military in turn defined the whole West Coast which is the home of the Americans of the Japanese ancestry or citizenship, as a military area. By June, about more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were relocated to remote internment camps that were built by the U.S. military, the locations of these camps were scattered around the country. For two and a half years, the Japanese Americans had to survive difficult living conditions and bad treatment from the military guards (Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066,
