The first subject I will be talking about is when the 14th amendment was ratified on July 28, 1868. This amendment grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” which included former slaves who had been freed after the Civil War. The amendment was denied by most of the confederate states because they didn’t want the former slaves to have the right to become a citizen. In their minds the former slaves were not legal citizens because they were brought here to be one thing and one thing only which was slaves. I personally like this amendment because if you were born or admitted into this country I think you should have the right to be a U.S. citizen. The people back in these days were very racial towards other race
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The Executive Order 9066 was a policy that divided the West Coast into military zones and moved Japanese descendants no matter if they were an American citizen or not further inland away from the west coast in fear they will strike our ports again. I think he signed the Order because a lot of people thought the Japanese Americans were going to sabotage and attack Americans again. It affected many people such as the Germans and Italians that lived in America but it greatly affected the Japanese people mainly because of Pearl Harbor. They had to leave their home, jobs, even farms they produced more than ten percent of California’s farmland. I don’t think it was really fair for them to be moved away but it was the right thing to do in this time period. By him signing this Order it protected Americans from a possible threat from the Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This lasted two years of the Japanese Americans having to live in these poor environments and the American government had to pay for that many years later when President Reagan signed that bill that gave the surviving Japanese Americans a tax free check for $20,000 and made the government apologize. Which in my opinion was the right thing to do because even though there could have been another attack on U.S. soil we still did not have to punish all of those innocent people ("FDR Signs Executive Order
The Executive Order 9066 was a policy that divided the West Coast into military zones and moved Japanese descendants no matter if they were an American citizen or not further inland away from the west coast in fear they will strike our ports again. I think he signed the Order because a lot of people thought the Japanese Americans were going to sabotage and attack Americans again. It affected many people such as the Germans and Italians that lived in America but it greatly affected the Japanese people mainly because of Pearl Harbor. They had to leave their home, jobs, even farms they produced more than ten percent of California’s farmland. I don’t think it was really fair for them to be moved away but it was the right thing to do in this time period. By him signing this Order it protected Americans from a possible threat from the Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This lasted two years of the Japanese Americans having to live in these poor environments and the American government had to pay for that many years later when President Reagan signed that bill that gave the surviving Japanese Americans a tax free check for $20,000 and made the government apologize. Which in my opinion was the right thing to do because even though there could have been another attack on U.S. soil we still did not have to punish all of those innocent people ("FDR Signs Executive Order