After the bombing at Pearl Harbor, no one who was Japanese was safe. The nation looked on and their fellow Japanese Americans with great distrust and this order is a large black spot in American history. FDR used his power as commander in chief to create militarized areas in the country in which anyone of Japanese heritage would be forced to live there. Under this order, military personnel had the authority to decided how long someone would stay in these camps and who stayed in what camps. Conditions in these internment camps were terrible and only provided the inmates with basic human necessities and whatever little they came in with.
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 also capitalized on anti-native american sentiment and forced native americans to leave their land and relocate indefinitely.
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