This branch of government is headed by the Mayor at the local level.
What is the Executive Branch?
100
This agency was created to assist newly freed slaves in their transition to free life. It provided services such as job placement, education, help with housing, and healthcare.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
100
This movement aimed to end slavery.
What is the abolition movement?
100
This is when people with higher incomes restore homes and businesses displacing those with lower income.
What is gentrification?
100
This elected official is the head of the local executive branch.
Who is the mayor?
200
The local court system makes up this branch of government at the local level.
What is the Judicial Branch?
200
This is the separation of people in recreation, education, and employment based on race
What is racial segregation?
200
This historical event that occurred in Washington, DC during the 1800s ultimately caused the Black Codes to be more strictly enforced and stated that freed Blacks could no longer own their own businesses.
What is the Snow Riot?
200
This group of people is most likely to be displaced due to gentrification.
Who are lower income residents?
200
DC's local courts represent this branch of government.
What is the judicial branch?
300
This is the Legislative Branch's main responsibility.
What is to write laws?
300
Picketing and boycotting are a form of this kind of action because they attempt to immediately remedy a problem.
What is direct action?
300
This historical event that occurred in Washington, DC during the 1800s ultimately led to the Compromise of 1850, which outlawed the slave trade in D.C.
What is the Pearl Affair?
300
This income class is moving back into the gentrified areas of DC.
What is the middle class?
300
This group of elected officials represent the local legislative branch and write the city's local laws.
What is the DC city council?
400
At the local level, this organization makes up the legislative branch.
What is the City Council?
400
This Supreme Court cause that was decided as part of the Brown v. Board decision ended school segregation here in Washington, D.C.
What is the Bolling v. Sharpe case?
400
This constitutional amendment permanently ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
400
These are some positive aspects of gentrification.
What is an increase in new restaurants and shops, new parks, increased property values (good for people who own homes), and lower crime rates?
400
This branch of government at the federal level has ultimate power to control DC.
What is the Legislative branch? (CONGRESS!)
500
Enforcing laws, approving/vetoing bills, appointing department heads, approving the city's budget, and overseeing all city agencies are all included in this person's job title.
Who is the Mayor?
500
This is the word Martin Luther King Jr. used to describe the effectiveness of riots as a method to create positive change.
What is reactionary?
500
This time period occurred in the United States after the Civil War.
What is the Reconstruction Period?
500
These are some negative aspects of gentrification.
What is the displacement of lower income residents, the tension between newcomers and lower income residents, the closure of local business due to higher rent prices.