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Black American Issues
Farmers' Woes
Labor
Women
Anything Else I Forgot to Mention
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This was also known as the "New Negro Movement". It began in the 1920s in Harlem where black poets, writers, scholars, painters, and musicians gathered. It's influence spread to other cities.
What is Harlem Renaissance?
100
Farmers planted 200 million trees with seedlings from the government across the land from Dakota to Texas. Trees took root and helped conserve the water and hold in place the precious top soil.
What was shelter-belt?
100
The number of Americans in the workforce were still unemployed in 1941.
What was 6,000,000?
100
Her role in the New Deal was to exert her own influence, advise her husband, and attract women reformers to Washington. She pushed to increase the number and influence of women working in the government.
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
100
William C. Palmer and Thomas Hart Benton were great a) artists. b) social workers. c) governors. d) opponents of the New Deal during the 1930s. e) psychic readers who went around saying "I Know-HAH!"
What is artists?
200
This organization was founded in 1909 to help blacks fight for their rights through the courts, to awaken all Americans to the rights of blacks, and to avoid racial violence.
What is the NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
200
Helped provide electricity to the farms of America.
What is the REA?
200
Labor organization formed in the late 1930s in the great mass-production industries—steel, autos, rubber, textiles.
What is the CIO?
200
True or False? During the Depression years, most women had jobs that were considered "women's work" as teachers, typists, clerks, nurses, and textile workers. Even when they did the very same work, women were often paid less than men.
What is True?
200
True or False? FDR’s popularity among black voters in the 1930s grew steadily.
What is True?
300
He was a leader of the Niagara Movement, and founder of the NAACP.
Who was W. E. B. DuBois?
300
Farmers who did not own the land they farmed and were not paid wages. Instead they received a share of the crops that they grew.
What were Sharecroppers?
300
This union practice did the Supreme Court ban in 1939.
What is sit-down strikes?
300
She helped blacks to feel that administration cared about them. She was also a good friend of Mary McLeod Bethune. She invited the National Council of Negro Women to tea at the White House and she visited black schools.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
300
There they were not allowed to vote. Little money was spent on their education and they went to separate and inferior schools. They found it hard to borrow money to buy houses or farms. In some southern states, the blacks made up more than half the population, but had no way to achieve wealth or political power.
What were the conditions of black Americans in the 1930s?
400
A group of close advisers to the president among whom were William H. Hastie and Mary McLeod Bethune.
What is the Black Cabinet?
400
Nineteen states in the heart of the nation where crops shriveled, cattle died, and when the wind blew, the topsoil (with no living roots to hold it in place) swirled into the air.
What is the "Dust Bowl"?
400
Theme song of the CIO.
What is “Solidarity Forever”?
400
This teacher has spent countless hours preparing jeopardy games for the midterm review for 3 of the best freshmen in the world! :-)
Who is JM Rettich?
400
Gave loans, seeds, and equipment to poor share croppers and other tenants who could still work the land.
What is the Federal Emergency Relief Act?
500
"Grandfather clauses", literacy tests with difficult questions about the Constitution, and a poll tax which prevented most poor people from voting.
What were devices used in southern states to keep blacks from voting?
500
A novel by John Steinbeck which told the story of the people who moved from the dust bowl to California and their hard journey.
What is the Grapes of Wrath?
500
American labor unions organized in mass-production industries; membership in unions rose from 4 million to 6 million; unions gained support of their rights from the federal government; and the power of factory owners over workers was reduced.
What are gains that American labor unions made in 1936–1938?
500
She was a black adviser to FDR, headed the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration, and helped thousands of black young people stay in school or learn trades.
Who was Mary McLeod Bethune?
500
This organization was instrumental in the 1915 Supreme Court decision to set aside the “grandfather” laws.
What is NAACP?