Key Vocabulary
What is the term for keeping groups of people apart based on race, religion, or other traits?
What is segregation?
This Indigenous group was forced off their land and marched west during the Trail of Tears.
Who are the Cherokee?
What kind of decision is made by leaders and lawmakers that can change where people live?
What is a political decision?
True or False: Segregation from the past still affects school and housing today.
What is True?
Fill in the blank: “Where people live is often shaped by __________ and __________ decisions.”
What are political and economic?
What word means forcing people to leave their homes, often by law or violence?
What is removal or displacement?
This group of Americans was forced into camps during WWII, even if they were U.S. citizens.
Who are Japanese Americans?
What kind of decision is based on money, jobs, and resources?
What is an economic decision?
Many families in redlined areas had fewer chances to do what with their homes?
What is build wealth or gain property value?
This major U.S. court case said segregation in schools was illegal in 1954.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
What is the name of the policy where banks refused loans to certain neighborhoods based on race?
What is redlining?
This community in Portland lost homes due to highways and hospital expansion.
What is the Albina district?
This government program built highways that often ran through Black neighborhoods.
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
This is a long-term result when neighborhoods are underfunded and pushed aside.
What is poverty or lack of investment?
Give one modern example of gentrification in a U.S. city.
Any example, e.g., Portland, Brooklyn, etc. Must be able to explain how.
What’s it called when wealthier people move into poorer neighborhoods, changing the community?
What is gentrification?
During the Great Migration, Black families moved North—but often still faced this kind of housing limitation.
What is housing segregation or redlining?
This federal policy helped white families buy homes after WWII but left out most Black families.
What is the GI Bill?
If people were forced out of their homes in the past, what might still be missing from their community today?
What is land, resources, or opportunity?
Explain in one sentence how redlining still affects neighborhoods today.
Accept answers showing unequal funding, lower property value, etc.