The Other America
19.4
The Other America
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Rural poor, white dominence
Urban Renewal
Inner city conditions
Mexican immigrants, native americans
Termination policy
Vocabulary
 Urban Renewal
 Tearing down rundown
 Braceros
housing and building low
income housing.
Improving conditions
 Hired hands, mexicans
 Eliminated federal
economic support,
discontinued reservation
system, distributed tribal
lands to workers/ farmers.
 Termination policy
Urban Poor
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James Baldwin=
author who wrote
about struggling
economically
5 million african
americans move to
urban north.
Most minorities lived
in slums of the city.
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¼ of American
population was under
poverty level
National Housing Act
tore down old houses
and built bigger ones.
New cabinet for
president
concentrated on
improving housing
conditions.
Urban Renewal
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National Housing Act
put in place to
construct new
houses, and give
every American family
decent living
conditions.
Houses were torn
down and new
complexes were
created.
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Some cases like the
Barrios in LA were
torn down to build
Dodgers Stadium. The
poor moved from one
ghetto to another,
and the construction
did not help them at
all.
Natives and Mexicans Struggle
Mexicans got citizenship
with annexation of
southern US in 19th
century.
► WWII, braceros were
allowed into US.
► Mexicans formed units in
the military especially for
them.
► Mexican veterans like Felix
Longoria were
discriminated against after
the war.
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Snyder Act grants
citizenship to Natives.
1944, establish the
National Congress of
American Indians.
65,000 natives volunteer
for the service.
Outsiders and farmers
took the land the tribes
left when they went to
war.
Termination Policy
 Government gave up its effort toward natives.
 Cut all economic support, discontinued the
reservation system, and divided their lands.
 This policy relocated 35,000 natives to cities,
where they were unable to find work because of
lack of skills and racial discrimination.
 The federal cut of programs for the natives also
left them without access to medical care.
Review Questions
 What was a bracero?
 A] hired hand, mexican
 B] a poor southerner
 C] a African American that migrated north.
Review Question
 After the Snyder Act, the Native
Americans were granted citizenship and
65,000 of them joined the military.
 TRUE OR FALSE?
Works Cited
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The textbook, The Americans
Reconstruction of the 21st Century