American History II
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The Other America
Chapter 27, Section 4; 866-869
One American’s Story
1.
What was James Baldwin’s background? (birth place, family life, etc.)
2.
What did he write about as a novelist, essayist and playwright?
3.
Reading his quote from “The Fire Next Time,” what was he saying about the plight of African Americans in the
1950s and 1960s?
4.
While many Americans were experiencing unprecedented prosperity, what was the experience of the “other”
America?
The Urban Poor
5.
In contrast to the popular perception, what percentage of Americans lived below the poverty level in 1962?
6.
Who were many of these poor people?
a.
b.
c.
White Flight
7.
When millions of middle class Americans moved to the suburbs, in essence, what were they doing?
8.
What was happening to the rural poor?
9.
How many African Americans moved from the South to urban areas in the north between 1945 and 1960?
10.
What was prompted by this “white flight?”
11.
Who was most impacted by “white flight?”
12.
What was lost by the cities because of “white flight?”
13.
What problems did these city governments face because of “white flight?”
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The Inner Cities
14.
What did many in the suburbs believe about the inner city?
15.
What was the poverty line for a family of four in 1959? In 2000?
16.
Who wrote the book and what was the title of the book that illuminated the issue of poverty?
17.
Besides confirming wide-spread poverty, what else was revealed in the book?
Urban Renewal
18.
Where did most African Americans, Native Americans and Latinos have to live in the cities?
19.
What was one proposed solution?
20.
What was the National Housing Act of 1949 supposed to provide?
21.
For what did this act call?
22.
What was created to aid in improving conditions in the inner city?
23.
Although dilapidated areas were torn down and replace with parking lots, shopping centers, highways, parks, and
factories, what was the main problem?
24.
When the barrio in Los Angeles was torn down to make way for Dodger Stadium, what happened to the displaced
people?
25.
What did some critics call urban renewal?
Poverty Leads to Activism
26.
What began to enable African Americans to make significant strides toward reducing racial discrimination and
segregation?
27.
Inspired by the civil rights movement, what did other minorities being to do?
Mexicans Seek Employment
28.
What caused many Mexican Americans to gain US citizenship during the 19 th century?
29.
When had other large numbers of Mexican come to the US?
30.
What had the US done during WWII because of the lack of agricultural workers?
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Who were the braceros?
32.
What happened when their employment ended?
33.
Why did many more Mexicans enter the country illegally?
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The Longoria Incident
34.
Of what was the Longoria incident an example?
35.
What did the Longoria incident involve?
36.
Who was Felix Longoria?
37.
What had been denied his family?
38.
What did many Mexican Americans do in the wake of the Longoria incident?
39.
What was founded in 1948?
40.
What was the purpose of the Unity League of California?
Native Americans Continue Their Struggle
41.
What had been the policy of the US toward Native Americans from the Dawes Act in 1887 until 1934?
42.
What did the Snyder Act of 1924 grant to the Native Americans
43.
What was the problem for Native Americans?
44.
How did things change in 1934 with the Indian Reorganization Act?
45.
How did Native Americans try to improve their lives in 1944?
46.
What were the National Congress of American Indians two main goals?
a.
b.
47.
How many Native Americans fought in WWII?
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What did they experience during the war?
49.
What happened to them once the war was over?
50.
What else began to happen to Native American tribal lands and reservations?
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The Termination Policy
51.
What did the government announce in 1953?
52.
As what was this new policy known?
53.
What did the termination policy do?
a.
b.
c.
54.
What did the Bureau of Indian Affairs become?
55.
How well did the termination policy work?
56.
Even though 35,000 Native Americans were relocated to the cities, what became the problem?
57.
What were many Native Americans unable to find jobs?
58.
What else were they now without?
59.
What happened to the termination policy?
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