What Is Redlining

question 36

Multiple Choice

What is redlining?

• A) A practice by which real estate agents attempt to convince minority home buyers to live in neighborhoods outside of the redlined areas with more minorities and fewer Whites
• B) This is the practice of towns or cities making neighborhood boundaries, formally separating White from Black neighborhoods.
• C) To determine which homes were suitable for federal home loan support as part of the New Deal, the loan agency created a color-coded map. Green areas were predominantly White and thus considered the best; undesirable areas were colored red and were predominantly Black. This system excluded Black residents from receiving support to buy their homes.
• D) After slavery was abolished, the federal government published and distributed maps with red states and blue states, denoting where African Americans were welcome to move or not.

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