During World War II, the US government sent people of Japanese ancestry to internment camps based on

The government’s wartime removal orders applied to people of Japanese ancestry who lived in designated military exclusion zones, especially along the West Coast. The policy was based on where people lived, not how long they had lived in the United States or whether they had ever lived in Japan. The correct choice is whether they lived in an exclusion zone.

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