CS 29: Post WWII Immigration and Migration Vocabulary

______ are residential areas surrounding a city that also contain shops and businesses that moved from the inner city as well.

• suburbs

• cities

• villages

• downtowns

______ is the movement of people away from their usual place of residence to a new place of residence, either across an international border or within a State.

• Migration

• Stationary

• Isolation

• Stagnation

______ is migration to a new country.

• Immigration

• Emigration

• Translocation

• Relocation

The ______ refers to the northern industrial states of the United States, including Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, in which heavy industry was once the dominant economic activity.

• Rust Belt

• Sun Belt

• Corn Belt

• Bible Belt

The ______ is a U.S. region, mostly comprised of southeastern and southwestern states, which has grown most dramatically since World War II.

• Sun Belt

• Rust Belt

• Corn Belt

• Bible Belt

______ is the move of white city-dwellers to the suburbs to escape the influx of minorities.

• White Flight

• Urban Sprawl

• Gentrification

• Suburbanization

The ______ was an act passed by the US congress which ended restrictions that had blocked most Asian immigration and substituted an annual quota.

• 1965 Immigration Act

• 1924 Immigration Act

• 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act

• 1990 Immigration Act

______ means the ability to speak two different languages.

• bilingual

• monolingual

• trilingual

• multilingual

______ is a discriminatory real estate practice in North America in which members of minority groups are prevented from obtaining money to purchase homes or property in predominantly white neighborhoods.

• Redlining

• Blockbusting

• Steering

• Gentrification

______ is the process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census.

• Reapportionment

• Redistricting

• Gerrymandering

• Census Adjustment