Korematsu v. United States

Glossary

• concentration camp a detention center in which a group of people are gathered together or “concentrated,” usually characterized by extremely harsh treatment of prisoners
• exclusion order Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, whereby persons considered to be a military threat could be excluded from certain areas
• Hirabayashi case Hirabayashi v. United States, in which the Supreme Court had upheld the constitutionality of the exclusion order
• instant present
• imperative requirement
• pass judge or rule
• petitioner one who brings a case before a court
• reposing resting
• sanctions punishments