Exam 9: The New Deal Experiment, 1932-1939

"Long ago,I wanted to join the AFL union,the Amalgamated Butchers and Meat Cutters,they called it and wouldn't take me.Wouldn't let me in the union.Never said it to my face,but reason of it was plain.Negro.That's it.Just didn't want a Negro man to have what he should.That's wrong.You know that's wrong.Long about 1937 the CIO come.Well,I tell you,we Negroes was glad to see it come.Well,you know,sometimes the bosses,or either the company stooges try to keep the white boys from joining the union.They say,'you don't want to belong to a black man's organization.That's all the CIO is.' Don't fool nobody,but they got to lie,spread lyin' words around." What organization did Jim Cole accuse of racism?

Opponents of the New Deal included business leaders and

What was the purpose of the Tennessee Valley Authority program that began in 1933?

What was the name of President Roosevelt's signature program?

What made the election of 1932 particularly historic?

What was the unifying basis of the New Deal coalition?

The New Deal made significant improvements in the quality of life in rural America by

What was the purpose of Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps?

President Roosevelt's plan to remove judicial obstacles to New Deal reforms in his second term of office

"I can get a job today even if we got a depression.I don't mean that I wasn't on relief when things got tough because there was a time when everything was shut down and I had to get on relief for a job.It isn't so long ago I was working on WPA.Believe me it was a big help.But it wasn't the kind of a job I should have had because this town is Republican and I am a Republican and I was a good worker for the party-making voters and helping a lot of people out....Getting jobs for them.When it came my turn that I needed help the politicians told me that I had to go on relief-well,when I did I was handed a shovel and pick....Roosevelt is a damn good man....You know there shouldn't be a depression in this country ...the Democrats are in power and the Republicans won't let loose with the money.Well I say that the money men started this thing and I believe the government should make laws to force these capitalists to bring back prosperity.They can do it if they wanted to." Charles Fusco,whose testimony is featured in this excerpt,blamed what or whom for the Great Depression?

Which of the following statements describes the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938?

What was the outcome of President Roosevelt's fiscal decisions in 1937?

What strategy did President Roosevelt use to restore America's confidence in government and the private banking system?

Father Charles Coughlin,an opponent of the New Deal,placed the blame for the nation's economic crisis on

In 1937,disgruntled workers at the General Motors plant in Flint,Michigan,acted on their grievances by

The goal of the New Deal's Farm Security Administration,created in 1937,was to

Which of the following statements describes the National Housing Act of 1937?

Where did migrant workers seeking to escape the chronic drought of the Dust Bowl typically look for work in the 1930s?

Republican Alf Landon ran for president in 1936 on which platform?

What impact did New Deal programs have on the average national unemployment rate during the 1930s?