(Impact of the New Deal on ethnic minorities) Native Americans

Question 1

How did Native Americans compare to other ethnic minorities?

Answer 1

The only one to have explicitly benefitted from the New Deal.

Question 2

What was the 1934 Indian Reorganisation Act?

Answer 2

Native American culture was celebrated whilst encouraged to modernise, for example, giving them control of land sales on reservations.

Question 3

What is the 1934 Indian Reorganisation Act a direct contrast of?

Answer 3

The 1887 Dawes Severalty Act

Question 4

What undermined legal progression for Native Americans?

Answer 4

Little respect for native american culture in wider society as well as large scale deprivation - Native Americans were some of poorest in USA.

Question 5

What did officials try to ensure?

What was the reality of this?

Answer 5

Native americans were part of alphabet agency employment.

The scale of deprivation was so high that short-term employment had limited effect.

Question 6

Give evidence of native americans being poor.

Answer 6

By 1939, average income was $500 compared to the national average of $1,300.