Why Did Executive Order 9066 Not Apply to Persons of Japanese

question 96

Multiple Choice

Why did Executive Order 9066 not apply to persons of Japanese descent living in Hawaii?

• A) In the wake of the U.S. Navy's defeat at Pearl Harbor, it was the Japanese that governed Hawaii.
• B) The number of Japanese-Americans in Hawaii was so insignificant that the order seemed irrelevant.
• C) Since nearly 40 percent of the population was of Japanese descent, the evacuation order would have been impractical.
• D) Most persons of Japanese descent in Hawaii actually served in military units.
• E) At the time, the federal government did not yet have such jurisdiction over its territorial possessions.

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Definitions:

Significance Level

A threshold in hypothesis testing that determines the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true.

SRS

An acronym for Simple Random Sampling, a statistical method where each member of a population has an equal probability of being included in the sample.

Null Hypothesis

A statement or assumption that there is no effect or no difference, used as a starting point for statistical significance testing.

Significance Test

A statistical method used to determine if there is a significant difference between groups or conditions, typically by comparing p-values to predefined significance levels.