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1. Why would Depression-era businesses hire women when there were so many unemployed men?
Worked for less than men
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11. Why did FDR wan to appoint six new Supreme Court justices?
Court dominated by GOP appointees have been declaing New Deal programs unconstitutional
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13. What event ended the New Deal?
WWII
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Who won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics?
Jesse Owens
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8. Where were 500,000 Mexican Americans sent during the Great Depression?
Back to Mexico
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Why was Frances Perkins historically significant?
1st woman cabinet member
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7. How was the Flint, Michigan, strike different from other strikes?
Sit down strike so non-union labor can't take jobs
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5. What were some of the infrastructure improvements that the WPA made?
Airports, public buildings, bridges, and roads
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10. What are three countries that had fascist governments in the 1930s?
Italy, Germany, and Spain
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How did Coughlin attack Jews, Communists, and labor unions?
The radio
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What act set the nation's first minimum wage of $0.40/hour?
Fair Labor Standars Act
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3. What area was hardest hit by the Dust Bowl?
Southern Great Plains
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4. Where did “Okies” come from and where did they mainly seem to go?
Oklahoma to California
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10. Where was the best place for critics of the New Deal to successfully challenge its programs?
Federal Courts
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What act guaranteed workers the right to form unions?
Wagner Act
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9. What two political movements said that the Depression proved that capitalism was a failed, dying system?
Communtists and Socialists [Reds and Pinkoes]
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4. Who did critics of the Revenue Act say that it wanted to soak?
Soak the rich!
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5. Why did Marian Anderson give a concert at the Lincoln Memorial?
Denied the right to sing at Constitution Hall by the DAR because she was an AfricanAmerican
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6. What Black Cabinet member was an important leader of the Civil Rights movement?
Ralph Bunche
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6. Who paid for the Social Security Act?
Workers through Payroll contributions
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Who was Townsend’s plan supposed to help?
Elderly who can't work
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11. Who sponsored soap operas and where did they play?
Detergent manufacturers; the radio
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What was Dorothy Lange's profession?
Photographer
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3. How would Huey “The Kingfish” Long pay for his “Share Our Wealth Plan”?
Taxing the rich heavily
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12. Name two famous movies of 1939?
Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind