new deal Q5

Question 1

black people:

Answer 1

200,000 blacks employed by the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) and other agencies
benefitted from slum clearance projects and housing improvement projects

Question 2

big change or little change for black people?

Answer 2

little, in the 1920s 1 million black farm labourers lost their jobs and were hit with the least skilled jobs so improvement

Question 3

women:

Answer 3

1935, at the peak of the New Deals Works Project Administration era, the program employed 460,000 women nationwide
big because some women like Eleanor Roosevelt became an important campaigner on social issues

Question 4

unemployment and the economy:

Answer 4

1935 still 10.6 million unemployed
1941 6 mill unemployed
only entry into WW2 stopped unemployment
new deal: stabilised banks and cut the number of businesses failures