Vocabulary
This word means to take power or control by force or without permission.
Usurp
This Indigenous group lived on Huichin land in what is now Berkeley for thousands of years.
Who are the Lisjan / Ohlone people?
This Spanish institution used Indigenous labor and controlled land and resources.
What is a mission?
This 1906 disaster caused population shifts and rebuilding across the Bay Area.
What is the 1906 San Francisco earthquake?
This practice denied loans and housing opportunities to people of color based on neighborhood "hazard" maps.
What is Redlining?
This transit system originally planned above-ground tracks through South Berkeley.
What is BART
This word refers to the careful management of land and natural resources, a practice used by the Ohlone people.
Husbandry
These ancient burial sites, once located in Berkeley, were destroyed by development.
What are shellmounds?
European diseases introduced by colonizers caused this devastating outcome for Native populations.
What is mass death or population decline?
During WWII, Berkeley and nearby cities experienced an economic boom because of this industry.
What is Shipbuilding?
Redlining most heavily affected African Americans living in these parts of Berkeley.
What is South and Southwest Berkeley
BART stands for
Bay Area Rapid Transit
This word means to survive or live with very little, often referring to food or resources.
Subsist
The Lisjan people believed they did not own the land, but instead had this type of relationship to it.
What is stewardship or belonging to the land?
Spanish colonization changed who controlled the land and it also completely transformed this.
What is Native culture and way of life?
World War II caused a large migration of this group into Berkeley and the East Bay.
Who are African-Americans
This World War II policy forced some Americans into incarceration camps. What was this policy called?
What is Japanese Internment?
This woman’s lawsuit forced BART to underground the tracks.
Who is Mabel (Mama) Howard
To put on or wear something, especially clothing or a disguise.
Don
This practice of setting fire to the land was used by the Ohlone to improve food production.
What is controlled burning or land management by fire?
The mission system aimed to convert Native people to Christianity and force them into this type of labor.
What is forced agricultural or manual labor?
Berkeley developed into a commuter city partly because of improvements in this system (name one specific mode in the system).
What is Public Transportation (Ferries, Rails, Trollies)
Even after internment, many Japanese Americans were honored decades later because they missed this milestone.
What is crossing the stage at their high school graduation.
Above-ground BART tracks threatened to destroy this part of Berkeley.
What is South Berkeley?
If something has a harmful or damaging effect, especially over time, it is described as this.
Deleterious
By the 1820s, there were no native people left in Berkeley largely due to disease and this system.
What is Spanish colonialism or the mission system?
Spanish colonizers arrived in the Bay Area during this decade.
What are the 1770s?
Transportation systems often shaped cities by allowing people to escape this. It is a specific term from your notes.
What is "The Urban Core"
These systems show how racism was not just individual, but built into laws and institutions.
What is systemic or structural racism?
The film connects transportation decisions to this modern issue. (hint: it's not just "housing")
What is displacement or gentrification