New Deal

Question 1

F___ D___ R_____ was stricken with polio in ____

Answer 1

Franklin D. Roosevelt& 1921

Question 2

The New Deal’s “3 Rs” were R_____& R_____& and R_____

Answer 2

Relief& Recovery& Reform

Question 3

Percentage of AA votes FDR gained from 1932 (70% Republican) to 1936?

Answer 3

76% Democrat

Question 4

Number of anti-lynching bills filibustered between 1934-1937?

Answer 4

2 (Costigan-Wagner& Gavagan)

Question 5

P_____ v. F_____ (1896) still upheld segregation during FDR’s era.

Answer 5

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 6

Lynchings in 1933 alone?

Answer 6

28

Question 7

C_____ N_____ was tortured and lynched in FL (1934) for a false accusation.

Answer 7

Claude Neal

Question 8

Percentage of Senate votes needed to break filibusters that blocked anti-lynching bills?

Answer 8

67% (2/3 majority)

Question 9

G_____ v. T_____ (1935) upheld all-white Democratic primaries until 1944.

Answer 9

Grovey v. Townsend

Question 10

Number of Black voters in Louisiana after poll taxes: 130444 (1896) → ___ (1910).

Answer 10

730

Question 11

M_____ ex rel. G_____ v. C_____ (1938) required equal graduate education.

Answer 11

Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada

Question 12

Year FEPC was established after A. Philip Randolph’s protest threat?

Answer 12

1941

Question 13

S_____ v. A_____ (1944) banned white primaries.

Answer 13

Smith v. Allwright

Question 14

The S_____ S_____ A_____ excluded 65% of AA jobs by omitting f_____/d_____ workers.

Answer 14

Social Security Act& farm/domestic

Question 15

Percentage of Black workers covered by the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act?

Answer 15

Only 35% (excluded farm/domestic)

Question 16

C_____ H_____ and T_____ M_____ challenged unequal teacher salaries.

Answer 16

Charles Houston& Thurgood Marshall

Question 17

Number of members in Alabama Sharecroppers Union by 1934?

Answer 17

8

Question 18

A_____ P_____ R_____’s Brotherhood won union recognition in ____

Answer 18

A. Philip Randolph& 1937

Question 19

Number of lynchings Ida B. Wells documented in Southern Horrors (1892)?

Answer 19

728

Question 20

The B_____ of S_____ C_____ P_____ won union recognition in 1937 under A_____ P_____ R_____

Answer 20

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters& A. Philip Randolph

Question 21

Percentage of Black youth served by NYA programs under Mary McLeod Bethune?

Answer 21

20%

Question 22

Chicago’s Black vote for Democrats rose from 11% (1920) to __% (1936) due to WPA jobs.

Answer 22

49%

Question 23

S_____ v. A_____ (1944) finally banned white primaries under the __ Amendment.

Answer 23

Smith v. Allwright& 15th

Question 24

M_____ M_____ B_____ directed NYA Negro Affairs.

Answer 24

Mary McLeod Bethune

Question 25

R_____ W_____ became first AA federal judge in ____

Answer 25

Robert Weaver& 1937

Question 26

The AAA displaced _____ AA sharecroppers (1933-1940).

Answer 26

200000

Question 27

Woofter Study (1936): AA sharecroppers earned_____

Answer 27

295& 417

Question 28

CCC was _____% Black by 1938.

Answer 28

11%

Question 29

The AAA paid farmers to reduce crop output& leading to _____ AA sharecropper evictions (1933-1940).

Answer 29

200000

Question 30

J_____ P_____ D_____ called the AAA "enforced poverty" for Black farmers.

Answer 30

John P. Davis

Question 31

Woofter Study (1936): White sharecroppers earned $_____ vs. AAs' $_____

Answer 31

417 vs 295

Question 32

The A_____ S_____ U_____ grew to 8000 members but faced violent repression.

Answer 32

Alabama Sharecroppers Union

Question 33

CCC wages: $/month (with $ sent to families).

Answer 33

30 vs 25

Question 34

R_____ F_____ (CCC Director) ordered all-_____ camps in 1935.

Answer 34

Robert Fechner& Black

Question 35

AAs called the NRA the "N_____ R_____ A_____."

Answer 35

Negro Removal Act

Question 36

PWA built _____% of AA schools in the South.

Answer 36

70%

Question 37

The NRA allowed regional wage gaps& e.g.& Black textile workers earned $/week vs. whites' $.

Answer 37

12 vs 13

Question 38

R_____ W_____ secured AA hiring quotas for PWA housing.

Answer 38

Robert Weaver

Question 39

WPA employed _____ AA workers annually (_____% of total workforce).

Answer 39

300000–350000 & 15%

Question 40

Black supervisors in WPA: Only _____% in North& _____% in South.

Answer 40

5% & 0.1%

Question 41

S_____ S_____ A_____ excluded _____% of AA jobs.

Answer 41

Social Security Act & 65%

Question 42

Atlanta FERA payments: whites $/month vs. AAs' $.

Answer 42

32.66 vs 19.29

Question 43

The S_____ S_____ A_____ excluded farm/domestic workers (_____% of AA jobs).

Answer 43

Social Security Act& 65%

Question 44

C_____ H_____ said the Act was a "sieve" for AAs to fall through.

Answer 44

Charles Houston

Question 45

Mississippi relief payments: $/month vs. Massachusetts' $.

Answer 45

8 vs 61

Question 46

FERA paid Atlanta whites $/month vs. AAs' $.

Answer 46

32.66 vs 19.29

Question 47

The F_____ L_____ S_____ A_____ (1938) excluded farm/domestic workers.

Answer 47

Fair Labor Standards Act

Question 48

1935 H___ R___ led to more Black hires in relief offices.

Answer 48

Harlem Riot

Question 49

Eleanor convinced FDR to create the N_____ Y_____ A_____'s Black division in 1935.

Answer 49

National Youth Administration

Question 50

She privately pressured FDR to establish the F_____ E_____ P_____ C_____ in 1941.

Answer 50

Fair Employment Practices Committee

Question 51

Year Eleanor publicly endorsed anti-lynching legislation (despite FDR's silence)?

Answer 51

1938

Question 52

Number of press conferences Eleanor held with Black journalists (1933-1945)?

Answer 52

348

Question 53

She was the first First Lady to join the N_____ A_____ C_____ P_____ in 1932.

Answer 53

NAACP

Question 54

Percentage of Black income from New Deal programs by 1939?

Answer 54

35%