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On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which authorized the Department of War to designate military areas in the United States and exclude any or all persons from those areas. The immediate consequence of this action was the order for all Japanese American citizens on the West Coast to leave. When it became evident that it was impossible for Japanese Americans to move to any other states, the government created the War Relocation Authority, which rounded up and incarcerated, or interned, 100,000 Japanese Americans in camps scattered across the western United States. This collection