US History Legislation And Reforms Practice Test

During World War II, the government used executive action to address security concerns, and this question focuses on the order that gave military authorities authority to remove people from their homes. On February 19, 1942, the president issued an executive order that allowed military commanders to designate certain areas as off-limits and to exclude individuals from those areas. This created the legal basis for relocating and confining Japanese Americans in internment camps across the interior of the country, resulting in the internment of more than 100,000 people of Japanese descent, many of whom were U.S. citizens. The other options relate to different wartime aims, not mass removal based on ethnicity: one established protections against employment discrimination in defense industries, another desegregated the armed forces, and another set up the mechanism to run the relocation camps. But only the order issued on that date directly authorized the removal and internment of Japanese Americans.