 termination policy
 urban renewal
 bracero

 Explain how white ‘flight’ to the suburbs created an urban crisis.
 Identify and describe the efforts and strategies minorities used to gain equal rights and fight poverty.

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 Causes:
 “White flight” –
 middle class whites move to suburbs, taking economic resources with them.
 Began to isolate themselves from other races.
 Suburbanization –
 Movement of people and resources to suburbs.
 Suburbs began to grow

 Causes:
 Poverty
 Remaining residents are poorer than the ones that left.
 Loss of property and income taxes
 Decrease in the quality of public services

 Solutions offered –
 Urban Renewal

Tearing down slums and rundown neighborhoods.

Created new cabinet position – HUD.

 Effects of the solutions:
 Using HUD, provide aid to improve conditions in the inner cities.
 Constructing low-income housing.
 Reality:
 Poor were moved from one ghetto to another.
 Cleared land was used for parking lots and shopping centers, not housing.

Discrimination of Mexican Americans
 Solutions offered:
 Beginning in 1942, along with a shortage of farm workers, federal program to hire
Mexican braceros (hired hands) by allowing them to enter the U.S. on a short term basis.

Discrimination of Mexican Americans
 Longoria Incident:
 Felix Longoria was a Mexican – American who was WW II hero who was killed in the Philippines.
 A local undertaker in his hometown refused to provide Longoria’s family with funeral services.

Discrimination of Mexican Americans
 Aftermath:
 Mexican – Americans stepped up efforts to end discrimination.
 Mexican – American veterans organized the
G.I. Forum (1948)
 Mexican – Americans began registering to vote and promoting candidates who would represent their interests .

Economic Hardship for Native Americans
 Federal policy towards Native Americans was one of
“Americanization” and assimilation.
 The Snyder Act (1924) – granted Native Americans citizenship, but remained second class citizens.
 Indian Reorganization Act (1934) – moved policy from Americanization and toward Native American autonomy.

Economic Hardship for Native
Americans
 Causes:
 Termination policy adopted by federal government

Policy eliminated federal economic support, discontinued the reservation system, and distributed tribal lands among individual Native Americans.
 Solutions:
 Bureau of Indian Affairs began a voluntary relocation program to help Native Americans find a place to live, work by paying for moving and living expenses.

Economic Hardship for Native
Americans
 Effects:
 Only 35,000 Native Americans relocate in the program
 Many were unable to find jobs.
 The number of Native Americans on state welfare rolls soared.

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