9 - DEPTH STUDY - THE NEW DEAL

Question 1

r. weaver

Answer 1

AA appointed to positions of power
Adviser of the economic status of the negro
45 million invested into homes hospitals ans shcools as a result

Question 2

Poor relief

Answer 2

many benefited from poor relief, ie from the worldprogress administration

Question 3

literacy

Answer 3

250,000 of AA recieved federal aid for literacy

Question 4

Employment training

Answer 4

many recieved training
provided by the National Youth Adminitsration

Question 5

help to southern AA after 1929

Answer 5

Farm secuirty adminitsrators, help those hit by the fall in prices

Question 6

roosevelet

Answer 6

opposed lynching
(no laws passed though)
didnt increase voting rights

Question 7

Atmosphere

Answer 7

a better atmosphere developed for change
elanor roosevelt supported AA organistaions and dispaorved of lynching

Question 8

NAACP

Answer 8

grew in membership

Question 9

sharecropers

Answer 9

struggled to pay rent
200,000 evicted

Question 10

reducing crop production

Answer 10

federal governemtn attempted to limit fall in price by paying farmers not to produce
this money often did not go to AA

Question 11

improved working conditions

Answer 11

excluded areas that AA commonly worked in such as domestic or agricultural work

Question 12

NRA

Answer 12

encoruaged better wages and working codnitions but excldued teh industrial north adn was often ignored by the south

Question 13

Wagner act

Answer 13

made it more likely big businesses would use unionised labour, which AA often were not

Question 14

social secuirty act

Answer 14

didnt apply to most work done by AA

Question 15

segregation

Answer 15

still prevelant in most areas including the armed forces

Question 16

work schemes

Answer 16

Civilian Conservation corps offered some aid to the unemployed but camps were segrgeated and they were given worse jobs with less pay