Relocation+from+Camp

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There were about 10 [|relocation camps] in the United States. The government started moving Japanese-Americans into the camps just a little while after the war. Even though the government started the internment camps they did not know how bad the camps were. The housing was terrible. In one camp, named Manzanar, the houses were built out of tar paper. There were smaller then middle school class rooms. After the president signed a very important document called the [|Executive Order 9066], the Japanese Americans were starting to be freed. In 1945, the last internment camp was closed forever in United States history.Thats where relocaton and other housing comes in. __Drafting__ In 1945, men started dissapearing. They were being drafted to war. In the book //__Farewell to Manzanar__// it said that people were starting to dissappear and a character in the book was going to be drafted. It was terrilble. Families were being torn apart. Many Japanese didn't want to go to war because it would be like fighting their own mother or father. But you couldn't refuse the offer when you are drafted. __Location__ One of the camps was in a desert like place. It was away from everything, somewhat of where the government would put a military base. When the relocation began, some people got to choose where they went and those who waited didn't. Most of them were put away from any coast. Most were put in Colorado or the Dakota's. They did this because the government did not want the Japanese Americans connected to Japan that was also the main reason why the government started evacuating the Japanese Americans in the first place.

//**__Citations:__**// Siasoco, Ricco. "Japanese Relocation Centers." 2007. Pearson Education. 11 Dec 2007 http://www.infoplease.com/spot/internment1.html. 2007. 14 Dec 2007 http://www.nps.gov/archive/manz/history.htm. __Virtual museum of the City Of San Francisco__. 18 Dec 2007[|www.sfmuseum.org/hist10/relocbook.html.] Houston, Jeanne. __farewell To Manzanar__. New York: Random House Children's Book, 1973.