Interment Camps: The Internment Of Japanese Americans

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We chose our topic, the Internment of Japanese Americans, because we thought it was interesting how 127,000 Japanese Americans were put into Internment camps even though most of the Japanese Americans were not spies. But even though the US had to take precaution and make sure that no one was spying they had to put all of the Japanese Americans in the Internment camps. Some ways we conducted our research is by looking at many pieces of evidence and many sources and then taking the evidence from those sources and put that toward our research. We also read articles and looked at a lot of primary sources to conduct our research. Some other things we did to conduct our research was reading books about the topic, watching videos and then use that

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