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Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today and Ellis Island

World War II and the Postwar Period The United States entered World War II in 1942. During the war, immigration decreased. http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/index.htm
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During World War II, the federal government ordered 120,000 Japanese-Americans who lived on the West coast to leave their homes and live in 10 large relocation camps ( see Internment Map ) in remote, desolate areas, surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards. Two-thirds were native-born American citizens. Evacuation sale during Japanese Relocation. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/japanese_internment/internment_menu.cfm
http://www.thwt.org/index.php/lessons-activities/civics Do I Have a Right? - Explore the Bill of Rights in the context of operating and growing a Constitutional law firm from obscure to distinguished status. ConstitutionFacts.com - You can test your constitution IQ with an interactive quiz and see how you scored against others in your state and nationally, see which founding father you'd vote for, determine which founding father you're like, and test your knowledge with the "Real or Fake?"

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DoHistory is an interactive site based upon the 200 year old diary of midwife/healer Martha Ballard. There are thousands of downloadable pages of original documents such as diaries, letters, maps, court records, town records, and more. There is also a searchable copy of the twenty-seven year diary of Martha Ballard.

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americanhistoryrules.com

We have seen the rise of Jim Crow and how African Americans faced segregation in the South AND North in the first half of the 20th century, all reinforced by the Supreme Court Decision of Plessy v. http://americanhistoryrules.com/
http://historyiselementary.blogspot.com/ The song I’ve posted below isn’t as popular as Marvin Gaye’s hit “What’s Going On?”, but it is from the same album….the first of its kind for Motown…a concept album. Gaye wrote the songs during a time of great depression when he isolated himself from the outside world.

History Is Elementary

"This order for the mass evacuation of all persons of Japanese descent denies them the right to live," Seattle native Gordon Hirabayashi wrote in 1942 .

Gordon Hirabayashi Has Died; He Refused To Go To WWII Internment Camp : The Two-Way : NPR

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/01/04/144684260/gordon-hirabayashi-has-died-he-refused-to-go-to-wwii-internment-camp
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