Warm-up:
Defenders of the internment policy said that German and Italian-Americans were more assimilated into U.S. society.
* How long do you think it takes immigrants or their descendants to assimilate? Do you agree with this argument for focusing on Japanese-Americans at the time?
Note the $20,000 reparation payment to surviving internees signed into Law in 1988 by President Reagan.
* How does this compare with the idea that the U.S. should make reparations to the descendants of slaves?
* How long do you think it takes immigrants or their descendants to assimilate? Do you agree with this argument for focusing on Japanese-Americans at the time?
Note the $20,000 reparation payment to surviving internees signed into Law in 1988 by President Reagan.
* How does this compare with the idea that the U.S. should make reparations to the descendants of slaves?
Objective:
SWBAT explain the considerations and limitations related to use of the Presidential Executive Order.