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Kirby Kragenbring.  “My grandparents were dirt poor”, “I’m in debt”, “I don’t have any wealth” “What white privilege?”white privilege  Whites median.

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1 Kirby Kragenbring

2  “My grandparents were dirt poor”, “I’m in debt”, “I don’t have any wealth” “What white privilege?”white privilege  Whites median net worth in 2001 was $120,989 compared to $19,024 (African American) and $11,458 (Latino)  Whites mean family assets was $546,785  The largest socioeconomic class in the United States is white working middle class

3  European monarchs and colonization  Spanish settlements  English serfs  American settlers often gave land to themselves  The Massachusetts Bay Charter  Narragansett Swamp Fight (1675)

4  Racial caste system  Virginia 1 st  Native American slavery Native American slavery  “Divide and conquer”  South Carolina (1670)  Georgia

5  Revolutionary War  Constitution  3/5 compromise 3/5 compromise  Naturalization act

6  Presidents  South  1.4 trillion  Free soil movement  Freedmen’s bureau

7  Andrew Jackson  Indian removal act (1830) Indian removal act (1830)  Pre-emption Act of 1841  Homestead Act of 1862  Denial to blacks  Indian Land  Dawes Act 1887

8  Anglos in Mexico  Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo  Homestead act 1862  Gold Rush 1849

9  Know-Nothing Party Know-Nothing Party  Jacksonian Movement  Jewish Immigrants  Eastern European and Italians  Irish Immigrants  Who was white

10  Depression  Public Works Administration  Works progress Administration  Nation industrial Recovery Act  National Labor Relations Act  Social Security  HOLC  AAA  New Deal New Deal

11  Defense Jobs  Japanese Internment  The GI bill

12  Suburbs boost  White potential loss

13  Job loss overseas  Job loss city to suburb  Blaming blacks

14  Regan  Women  Affirmative Action

15  BOOM  Jobs  Schooling

16  The Cost of being black  White people need to see that colored people with assets and security benefit the whole country and need to work to vote people into office along with colored voters to make this so  “We all do better when we all do better” –Jim Hightower

17  Works Cited   "Affirmative Action." American Civil Liberties Union. Web. 10 Nov. 2014..  "Back to Work: FDR and Labor's New Deal." Wolfsonian-FIU. Web. 9 Nov. 2014..  "California Gold Rush." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Aug. 2014. Web. 9 Nov. 2014..  Lui, Meizhu, Barbara Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Rose Brewer, and Rebecca Adamson. "Climbing The Up Escalator: White Advantages In Wealth Accumulation." The Color of Wealth. New York: New, 2006. 225-266. Print.  "New Deal." History.com. A&E Television Networks. Web. 9 Nov. 2014..  "Slavery among Native Americans in the United States." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Oct. 2014. Web. 9 Nov. 2014..  "The Racial Wealth Gap." Demos. Web. 9 Nov. 2014..  "ERiposte Economy - Economic Indicators: Bush Jobless Recovery." ERiposte Economy - Economic Indicators: Bush Jobless Recovery. Web. 10 Nov. 2014..  "Race and the GI Bill." Race and the GI Bill. Web. 10 Nov. 2014..   MLA formatting by BibMe.org.


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