Theodore Roosevelt Justified Analysis

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President Roosevelt's decision was not justified because it was based on racial prejudice, wartime hysteria, and it violated Japanese American citizen's protected rights. Roosevelt gave into the popular opinion and promoted war time hysteria as well as racism against Japanese American Citizens. A nation's leader should've been stronger than that especially a nation such as the United States. The US is considered to be the world wide leader, therefore they set the prime example of what should and shouldn't be. What Roosevelt did however, was not a good example.

The Hawaiian population was made up by nearly 40% of Japanese Americans and only a thousand were detained there. This meaning, their removal was caused by more reasons rather than

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