Executive Order 9066: The President Authorizes Japanese Relocation: Trivia

    Executive Order 9066: The President Authorizes Japanese Relocation: Trivia

      In the WRA relocation camps, schools were set up for children and adults alike. Educational programs included classes in the English language and classes on American culture. Their purpose? To further "Americanize" prisoners, a vast majority of whom were already American citizens. (Source)

      In a troublesome twist of history, most of the WRA relocation camps were built on Native American reservation lands, creating a double displacement of ethnic and cultural populations by the U.S. government. (Source)

      FDR loved those executive orders. He was such a big fan that he enacted 3,721—more than any other president in U.S. history. The fact that he had four terms to rack up the number probably helped, but still, that's pretty impressive. (Source)

      On the flip side, William Henry Harrison was about as uninterested in issuing executive orders as FDR was about pumping them out. During his term in office, he didn't pen a single one...although he also died a month after his inauguration. (Source)

      Mistakenly, some people thought Japanese Americans complacently accepted their imprisonment, but the reality was quite the opposite. By and large, the imprisoned obeyed the regulations created because of E.O. 9066 to express their loyalty to the United States. It is often stated that the Japanese philosophy of "shikata ga nai," which translates to "it cannot be helped," actually did help Japanese Americans endure their imprisonment. (Source)