On February 19th, 1942 President Franklin Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066, this approved the secretary of war to declare parts of the United States military sections. According to History matters 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.” The Executive Order 9066 was passed only 10 short weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the government was still on edge and were taking precautions.
Although the order did not single out a certain population, a large population of Japanese Americans were settled in those areas. The government was still hesitant about what had happened so they
Although the order did not single out a certain population, a large population of Japanese Americans were settled in those areas. The government was still hesitant about what had happened so they