New Deal and minority

Question 1

African American gains

Answer 1

Eleanor Roosevelt spoke against racial injustice
Federal Govt allowed Marian Anderson to perform at Lincoln memorial
FDR eliminaed segregation in Federal govt

Question 2

African American disadv

Answer 2

Most A.A. lived in rural south, while only those in CIO unions in the North benefited
CCC ran sgregationist camps
TVA hired whites mainly
CWA paid AA less
FDR refused to support black cabinet if it alienated Southern senators

Question 3

Mexican Americans gains

Answer 3

Benefited from federal relief programme

Urban blue collar earned concession by joing uNIONS

Question 4

Mexican Americans disadv

Answer 4

Got lower relief payments
Didn’t benefit from union programmes
NLRA didn’t protect Mexican Unions
Social Security Act didn’t include Mexicans

Question 5

American Indians gains

Answer 5

John Collier as commioner of BIA (Bereau of India Afairs)
Presured CCC and AAA to employ Indians improving reseration land
Increased Indian employe in BIA to 4600 in 1940

Question 6

American Indians disadv

Answer 6

Conservatists still wanted assimilation

Farmers and businessmen feared their access to India land would be restricted

Question 7

Women gains

Answer 7

Women held more govt roles
Frances Perkins Secretary of Labour —> Social Security 1935
Ruth Bryan Owen amabassador to Denmark
Josephine Roche Assistant Secretary of Trueasury
270,000 in CWA
200,000 in FERA

Question 8

Women disadv

Answer 8

Economy Act forbade members of the same family to work in govt
75%who were unemployed were women
Social Security Act excluded waitresses domestic servants
NRA allowed unequal wages
CCC only recruited men

Question 9

Immigrants gains

Answer 9

new opportunities to rise aove second class citizen status
FDR made sure may welfare and construction programmes reached immigrants

Question 10

Immigrants disadv

Answer 10

anti-semetism and Catholicim persisted

Question 11

Mexican Americans previous to ND

Answer 11

Hoover targeted illegal immigrants in Southern California
publicised raids rounded up and deported Mexicans who cant prove their tatus
By 1935, 500,000 returned equivalent to 1/3 Mexican population of LA

Question 12

American Indians previous to ND

Answer 12

Dawes Act 1887 broke tribal land into individual farms
Few succeeded in farming and lost lad o speculation
1933, half of Indians on reservation were landless
BIA outlawed Indian religious ceremonies and forced attendance to federal boarding school

Question 13

Women previous to ND

Answer 13

1920s. women didnt vote as a bloc
Women got lower pay in the same job
Banning night shifts hurt female employment opportunities
Sheppard owner Act healthcare for pregnant women