Lesson 10

Question 1

Hayes v. Tilden (1876)

Answer 1

Hayes made promise w/ Southern States to remove federal troops if elected; allowed Jim Crow Laws to be placed

Question 2

13th Amendment

Answer 2

Abolished slavery or involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime –> caused a target on Blacks for imprisonment to continue use of free labor for sharecropping, led to War on Drugs etc.

Question 3

Redlining

Answer 3

Denial of mortgages in high risk (typically pre dominantly Black) areas, leading to underdevelopment of Black neighborhoods

Question 4

Frederick M. Babcock

Answer 4

Created FHA appraisal and underwriting system, leading to creation of money mortgage system revolution to create mass homeownership as a profitable investment and prejudiced appraisals allowing for redlining

Predatory land development and high rent confines Blacks to underdeveloped neighborhoods. Ex: East Side rent gouging, the more underdeveloped a neighborhood is the more of a burden higher rent is on residents

Question 5

Wealth Extraction

Answer 5

Building of infrastructure, housing developments that do not benefit community financially but an external third party source

Question 6

We Charge Genocide

Answer 6

Black leaders argued that the US was committing a genocide by deliberately inflicting inequitable disparities in 2017

Question 7

The Heckler Report

Answer 7

Popularized concerns surrounding minority healthy disparities