What was Executive Order 8802, and what impact did it have?
a. It ordered the Japanese and Japanese Americans to leave designated regions in the Pacific Coast area, resulting in the internment of more than ninety-three thousand people.
b. It banned racial discrimination by federal defense contractors with the result that many African Americans were hired in aircraft plants and shipyards, albeit in the worst jobs..
c. It stipulated that members of the armed services could not refuse to do work that their superior officers ordered them to do, even if that work was exceedingly dangerous. Its result was the death of more than three hundred African American sailors in an explosion at Port Chicago and the court-martialing of fifty who refused to load munitions after the explosion.
d. It called for the military to investigate the violence by white servicemen towards Mexican Americans in cities from San Diego to Oakland.
b
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A. Italy B. Spain C. Germany D. the Netherlands
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A) ?combined laborers of different ethnicities and nationalities. B) ?differed greatly from farm work that was typically done alone or with family members. C) ?allowed for the formation of camaraderie among workers. D) ?led to the formation of labor unions. E) ?All of these are correct.
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A. Mary McLeod Bethune. B. Harry Hopkins. C. Frances Perkins. D. Harold Ickes. E. Eleanor Roosevelt.