How did Executive Order 9066 affect civil liberties in the United States?

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BRIAN M.
May 31, 2016

Signed on February 19, 1942, Executive Order 9066 was a presidential executive order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, giving power to the Secretary of War to maintain areas as military internment camps to isolate Japanese Americans who may have been a risk to the safety of the United States.

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Signed on February 19, 1942, Executive Order 9066 was a presidential executive order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, giving power to the Secretary of War to maintain areas as military internment camps to isolate Japanese Americans who may have been a risk to the safety of the United States. Throughout the war years more than 120,000 men. women and children of Japanese descent were evacuated to camps throughout the United States.

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