Starting in Feb. 19, 1942, by executive order of president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 125,000 people of Japanese descent were interned due to the unfunded suspicion that they would conspire against the US.

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14. (05.05 mc) question refers to the excerpt below. "to each head of a family, one-quarter of a section; to each single person over eighteen years of age, one-eighth of a section; to each orphan child under eighteen years of age, one-eighth of a section; and to each other single person under eighteen years now living, or who may be born prior to the date of the order of the president directing an allotment of the lands embraced in any reservation, one-sixteenth of a section."—from the dawes act, 1887 how did the disbursement of land through the dawes act differ from previous agreements between the government and american indians? (5 points) the dawes act broke up lands into smaller plots for individuals, but earlier acts gave larger tracts to entire tribes. previous acts granted land only to heads of families, but the dawes act also distributed lands to single people and children. the dawes act distributed lands previously designated as reservations, whereas earlier agreements had only included new lands. previous lands had been distributed only through presidential order, whereas the dawes act was passed by congress.