20. What are some of the following ways that government policy creates social, racial,
and economic inequality? (check all that apply)
A. After the Civil War, failure to provide land grants to the formerly enslaved while providing
homesteading grants to white immigrants
B. Increases in spending on prisons and policing while decreasing funding for public schools and
childhood poverty supports.
C. By not enforcing laws to protect undocumented workers while also creating incentives for
business to hire cheap labor.
D. Policies such as redlining that restricted Black families from homeowners and thus creating
generational wealth
Correct answers only
A. After the Civil War, failure to provide land grants to the formerly enslaved while providing
homesteading grants to white immigrants
C. By not enforcing laws to protect undocumented workers while also creating incentives for
business to hire cheap labor.
D. Policies such as redlining that restricted Black families from homeowners and thus creating
generational wealth