How Did Executive Order 906 Influence The Government

On February 19th, 1942 President Franklin Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066, which approved the secretary of war to declare parts of the United States military sections. The order authorized the military “to ban any citizens from a fifty to sixty-mile-wide coastal area stretching from Washington State to parts California and going all the way into part of Arizona.” With the timing of the Executive Order 9066 being passed it was only 10 short weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the government was still on edge. The government was still hesitant from the attack on Pearl Harbor and were taking precautions. Although the order did not single out a certain population of people, a large population of Japanese Americans were settled in the areas that was sectioned off by Executive Order 9066. The government was convinced that a large of the Japanese Americans population that were settled on the west coast were spies who were lurking on America’s military and reporting back to their …show more content…
In most cases of Japanese Americans actually being spies was slim to none. Thousands of normal citizens who were innocent and nothing wrong were into internments camps, based off a theory. They had their lives changed just because the United Stated government was still scared after being attacked with Pearl Harbor. They were taking it out on the citizens of their own country that just had a relation to an event, even though they were not involved in it. An example of something like this would be like, if there was a group of 15 boys were picking on a group of girls. However, only 3 of the boys were picking on the girls but all of the boys got into trouble for doing this. The rest of boys got into trouble for just being a boy in the group. This is just based of a theory not a proven fact, just like the what happened to the Japanese