https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z Dylan Trujillo and Raul Dorantes en-us 2017-02-08 19:05:21 UTC 2017-05-27 00:35:52 UTC hello@padlet.com dylant2530 https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/152885569 2017-02-09 19:00:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/152885569 dylant2530 https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/152886926 The Heart Mountain Relocation Center was one of ten facilities constructed to confine 120,000 Japanese Americans removed mainly from West Coast states.]]> 2017-02-09 19:03:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/152886926 dylant2530 https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/152887334 While most settled along the West Coast, roughly 13,000 people of Japanese descent lived in the Intermountain West prior to World War II.

]]> 2017-02-09 19:04:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/152887334 dylant2530 https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/152887628 War II, people of Japanese descent from Oregon, Washington and California were incarcerated at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Park County, Wyo., as the result of an executive order of President Franklin Roosevelt. Residents were at the camp from Aug. 12, 1942 to Nov. 10, 1945, two months after the end of the war with Japan. ]]> 2017-02-09 19:05:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/152887628 dylant2530 https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/152888625 The first internees arrived at Heart Mountain on Aug. 12, 1942. The facility consisted of 450 barracks, each containing six apartments.]]> 2017-02-09 19:07:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/152888625 dylant2530 https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/152889236 When the people first arrived, a barbed-wire fence to surround the camp was not yet complete. The internees protested the construction of this barrier and caused further work to be delayed. In November 1942, they submitted a petition containing 3,000 signatures to WRA Director Dillon- Meyer.]]> 2017-02-09 19:08:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/152889236 dylant2530 https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/152889824 it held more than 10,000 people, making it the third largest town in the state.]]> 2017-02-09 19:09:31 UTC https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/152889824 dylant2530 https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/152890604 Much of the immigration to the United States from Japan began in 1884 when thousands of Japanese arrived in Hawaii to work the sugar cane fields. ]]> 2017-02-09 19:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/152890604 dylant2530 https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/152891459
To manage the movement and incarceration of such a large population, a new agency called the War Relocation Administration (WRA) was created. Ten sites for relocation centers were selected by April 1942.]]> 2017-02-09 19:12:28 UTC https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/152891459 dylant2530 https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/153160540 was one of ten concentration camps used for the internment of Japanese Americans evicted from the West Coast Exclusion Zone during World War II by executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.]]> 2017-02-10 19:21:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/153160540 dylant2530 https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/153161133  The site of the Heart Mountain War Relocation Center is considered to retain the highest integrity of the ten incarceration centers constructed during World War II. ]]> 2017-02-10 19:23:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/153161133 dylant2530 https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/153161872 The camp would hold a total of 13,997 Japanese Americans over the next three years, with a peak population of 10,767, making it the third-largest "town" in Wyoming before it closed on November 10, 1945.[3]]]> 2017-02-10 19:25:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rauld1836/161l87z502z/wish/153161872