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Question 1

Wat did post war America not live up to

Answer 1

The american dream. In 1962. nearly 1/4 of the Americans were living below the overty level

Question 2

Who was living below the pverty leve?

Answer 2

Minority groups including African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans

Question 3

In the 1950s, what did white AMericans do

Answer 3

They left the cities fo r the suburbs taking with them economic resources and isolating themselves form other races and classes

Question 4

What did the poor people do?

Answer 4

Migrated to the city

Question 5

What was the white flight, who did it impact

Answer 5

It impacted poor whites and nonwhites. T

Question 6

What did the cities loose

Answer 6

people, businesses and property they owend as well as income tazes that they ahad paied. The governments could not afford to proprely maintain or improve schools, public transport suffered

Question 7

What were Americans unaware of?

Answer 7

The growing poverty in the inner cities.

Question 8

What was happing to the amount needed to survive

Answer 8

it was rising

Question 9

Where did AAs NAs and Ls have to live in

Answer 9

dirty crowded slums,

Question 10

What was urban renewal

Answer 10

The National Housing Act of 1949 was passed to provide a decent home and suitable living environment for every family. This called for the tearing down of rundown neighborhoods and constructing lowincome ousing.

Question 11

What was the Housing Urban Development

Answer 11

It came to aid / improve conditions in the inner city

Question 12

What happend

Answer 12

Bad areas were cleared, and parking lots, shopping centers, highways, oarks, and factories were constructed on some of the land

Question 13

Was there housingn?

Answer 13

No not enough to accomodate all the displaced people

Question 14

What was an example of this

Answer 14

Dodger stadium was built on a barrio. And poor people were moved form one ghetto to another

Question 15

What did minority groups do?

Answer 15

Fight against discrimination

Question 16

What were the braceros.

Answer 16

Hired hands that were allowed into the US to harvest crops/.

Question 17

The braceros wer en

Answer 17

Sort term employment and were expected to retern to MExico. Many remained in the US illegally

Question 18

What did other mexicans do

Answer 18

enter the US because they wanted to escape the poor economy

Question 19

What was the Longoria Incident

Answer 19

Texas refused to bury this man who was a vet.

Question 20

What was the GI Forum and the UNity League of California

Answer 20

GI: Organized by mexican veterns

Untiy League of Calii: Was to register Mexican Americans to vote and to find canidates that would represent them

Question 21

What was the policy and acts towards NAs

Answer 21

They wanted to Americanize these people, or make them essentially american. The snyder act granted citizenship to them. but they were still 2nd class

Question 22

The indian reorganization act of 1934 did what

Answer 22

they moved the policy oaway from assimilation and toward native american autonony

Question 23

In the Great Depression, what happened

Answer 23

The gov. wanted to stop subsidizing them

Question 24

What were some solutions that native americans came up with

Answer 24

the national congress of American indians:

1. To insure native americans the same civil rights that whites had
2. To make sure that NAs retain their custons

Question 25

After the war ended,

Answer 25

Native americans stopped recieveing family allotments and wages, OUtsiders grabbed control of theier lands

Question 26

Termination POliciy

Answer 26

Giving up responsibility for native american tribes, eliminating federal economic support and discontinued reservation sustem and distributed tribal lands among individuals

Question 27

What did the urea of Indian Affairs do

Answer 27

began a voluntary reloaction program. There were many who were left without access to vital thing s