27-4: The Other America
Problem decaying cities
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Causes:
Solution offered:
“White Flight”
• Urban renewal: Plan to
tear down decaying
Suburbanization
neighborhoods and build
Remaining city
low cost housing.
residents poorer than
2. Effects of Solution:
those who left
Loss of property and • Rundown neighborhoods
torn down
income taxes
• Cleared areas often not
Decrease in the
used for housing which
quality of services
leads a housing shortage
Problem: Discrimination against
Mexican Americans
Causes:
3. Solution offered:
• Prejudice against
• The creation of the American
G.I. Forum, the Unity League of
Hispanics
California, and voter registration
• Hard feelings
groups in other states, the
toward Braceros
Asociacion Nacional Mexicowho stayed to work
Americana, and the League of
in the U.S. after
United Latin American Citizens
World War II
4. Effects of Solution:
• Illegal aliens
• California outlaws segregated
escaping poor
classrooms for Mexican Americans
conditions in
• More Mexican Americans registered to
Mexico
vote and gained a stronger voice in
politics
Problem: Economic Hardship for
Native Americans
5. Causes
Solution offered:
• A termination policy
• The Bureau of Indian Affairs
adopted by the federal
began a voluntary relocation
government
program to help Native
• Thousands of Acres of
Americans find a place to lvice
tribal lands sold to
and work and to pay for moving
developers
and living expenses
Effects of Solution:
• Only 35, 000 Native Americans
relocated in the program
• Many of them were unable to find jobs
• The number of Native Americans on
state welfare rolls soared
Terms
• Bracero: Farm workers who
entered the U.S. from
Mexico.
• During World War II the
Federal Government allowed
these workers to enter the
U.S. because of a shortage
of farm workers, but we
expected them to go back to
Mexico after the war and
many stayed illegally
• Termination Policy: Federal
Government decision to end
federal responsibility
(economic support) for
native American tribes
• It ended the reservation
system and distributed tribal
land among individual Native
Americans