An executive order I learned in Lesson 2, was Executive Order 9066. The Executive Order 9066 was issued during world war 2 on February 19, 1942. This sent not only Japanese-Americans, but German, and Italian-Americans as well into internment camps. This occurred ten weeks after the Japanese bombed pearl harbor. How did this executive order effect American citizens? Well for starters we ripped Japanese-AMERICAN citizens from their homes and their families, and through them in internment camps. We punished our own AMERICAN citizens because of their ethnicity from the orient. This was not only unethical but racist. We separated families, terminated their rights, and destroyed their homes, they were American citizens and they suffered greatly.
