chapter 27.4

Question 1

White flight

Answer 1

Millions of middle–class white Americans left the cities for the suburbs, taking with them precious economic resources and isolating themselves from other races and classes

Question 2

Urban renewal

Answer 2

This act called for tearing down run down neighborhoods and constructing low–income housing

Question 3

HUD

Answer 3

Housing and Urban Development

Question 4

Barrio

Answer 4

District of a city or town

Question 5

Braceros

Answer 5

Hired hands

Question 6

Longoria incident

Answer 6

Longoria was aMexican–American World War II hero who had been killed in the Philippines. The only undertaker in his hometown in Texas refused to provide Longoria’s family with funeral services

Question 7

National Congress of American Indians

Answer 7

The congress had two main goals: (1) to ensure for Native Americans the same civil rights that white Americans had, and (2) to enable Native Americans on reservations to retain their own customs

Question 8

Termination policy

Answer 8

Eliminated federal economic support discontinued the–reservation system, and distributed tribal lands among individual NativeAmericans