AA new deal

Question 1

pos: CCC

Answer 1

1933

Provided unskilled labour jobs for unmarried, unemployed men. Worked in development of natural resources in rural lands owned by government. Over its course, over 3 million men participates. They were provided with food, shelter, clothing and a job that provided wages.

Question 2

pos: Mary Mcleod

Answer 2

FDR appointed her to the advisory committee of the National Youth Administration (NYA).

blacks received a fair share of NYA funds

to over 11% by the close of 1938 with a total of more than 350,000 having been enrolled in the CCC by the time the program was shut down in 1942.

Question 3

Pos: Works progress administration

Answer 3

By 1935: (WPA) was employing approximately 350,000 African Americans annually, about 15% of its total workforce.

Question 4

pos: PWA

Answer 4

In 1934, the Public Works Administration (PWA) inserted a clause in all government construction contracts that established a quota for the hiring of black laborers based on the 1930 labour census and as a consequence a significant number of blacks received skilled employment on PWA projects.

Question 5

Federal Music Project

Answer 5

which funded performances of black composers; from the Federal Theatre and Writing Projects, which hired and featured the work of hundreds of African American artists

Question 6

Education

Answer 6

taught over 1 million illiterate blacks to read and write and which increased the number of African American children attending primary school.

Question 7

Neg: NRA

Answer 7

National Recovery Administration (NRA) offered whites the first crack at jobs and authorized separate and lower pay scales for blacks

Question 8

• The Federal Housing Authority (FHA)

Answer 8

refused to guarantee mortgages for blacks who tried to buy in white neighbourhoods.

Question 9

NEG; CCC

Answer 9

Civilian Conservation Corps maintained segregated camps.

Question 10

• The Agricultural Adjustment Act

Answer 10

1933

aimed to help farmers by cutting farm production and forcing up food prices. Less production meant less work for thousands of poor black sharecroppers. 40 % of all black workers made their living as sharecroppers and tenant farmers, so the AAA hit blacks hard- policies forced more than 100,000 blacks off the land in 1933 and 1934.

Question 11

Lynching

Answer 11

FDR failed to support an anti-lynching bill as he feared that conservative southern Democrats, who had seniority in Congress and controlled many committee chairmanships, would block his bills if he tried to fight them on the race question