New Deal

Question 1

AAA agricultural adjustment administration

Answer 1

aim to stop overproduce of crops by giving farmers money, most of the money was used for machinery to replace black farmers
Consequence: 200,000 black Anericnas evicted

Question 2

TVA Tennessee Valley Authority

Answer 2

Aim: Revamp economy after great depression, privions of flood control, help with electricity and unemployment
Consequences: Black Americans got jobs but were discriminated against

Question 3

CCC Civilian Conservation Crops

Answer 3

aim: established in march 1933, create jobs for unemployed males to work, doubled black recruitment 200,000 employed
Consequence: discriminated against, food was scare and poor had to sacrifice hot food to white males.

Question 4

NRA (national recovery administration )

Answer 4

aim: to help business and manufacturing
Consequences: Excluded agricultural workwrs

Question 5

PWA Public Works Administration

Answer 5

aim: offer employment through works
Consequence : Spent over $65 million on the construction and improvement of black homes schools hospitals, ensured construction jobs for black americans, got equal pay

Question 6

WPA (workers progress administration)

Answer 6

aim: to offer employment through public works
Consequences: 300,000 employed annually, taught 250,000 to read and write, built 800 schools, only 5% of blacks had supervisory roles

Question 7

NYA (national youth administration)

Answer 7

Aim: help unemployed youths
Consequences: taught skills to 500,000 young black Americans , fiat distributions of funds, accepted discrimination

Question 8

FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Administration)

Answer 8

Aim: relief and work projects for poor
Consequences: 1/3 benefited, southern administrations were unfair $25 a month for needy families

Question 9

Social Security Act

Answer 9

Aim: insurance for unemployed, pensions for elderly
Consequences: Excluded service industry and farm workers, money was not generous $10-$85 a month
unemployment $18 a week 16 weeks only

Question 10

FHA ( federal Housing Administration)

Answer 10

aim: Established in 1934 to help homeowners, pay lower interest, loner mortgages
Consequences: little help for ghetto- dwellers

Question 11

Solid South

Answer 11

prior to the 1960s voters in the south invariably voted democrat- most of these voters were white

Question 12

1933 what did the democratic party (a loose coalition) include?

Answer 12

• solid south
• urban (catholic) ethnic voters in the north
• workers and middle class across the nation

Question 13

political status of black americans in the north

Answer 13

a few black politicians elected to office
black americans didn’t win state wide office because only white candidates were voted in

Question 14

political status of black americans in the south

Answer 14

few allowed to vote
those who could vote risked violence against them
southern politics full of democratic party

Question 15

black americans social status in the north

Answer 15

de facto segregation kept the black urban population crowded into ghettos

Question 16

black americans social status in the south

Answer 16

de jure segregation in public places
black males avoiding eye contact with white fee males
expected to move to the side if a white person approached the sidewalk

Question 17

black americans economic status in the north

Answer 17

slowly growing of black middle class
economic opportunities better than in the south
most black americans in the north were poor affected by great depression

Question 18

black americans economic status in the south

Answer 18

many worked in agriculture like sharecroppers or tenant farmers
some employed in the industry
poor education and underfunded schools

Question 19

legal status of black americans in the north

Answer 19

little to no protection from the police
lynching was not uncommon

Question 20

legal status of black americans in the south

Answer 20

whites used violence and lynching as race control
whites dominated law enforcement
black citizens lacked effective protection under the law

Question 21

1901-1929 number of people lynched

Answer 21

1200 in the south