Chapter 25

Which of the following groups were prevented from voting under the "grandfather clauses"

African-Americans

Which of these was not a dust bowl state in the 1930s?

California

Which of the following statements was the result of the other three?

In the 1930s, many African-Americans switched their allegiance from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party

A labor organization that admitted many members of minority groups in the 1930s was the

International Ladies Garment

Which of the following is not correctly paired?

Langston Hughes- Black Brain Trust

women gained a greater voice in shaping the policies of the democratic party largely through the work of

Mary Dewson

The flowering of African American culture and pride in the 1930s was known by all of the following names except

Niagara Movement

Which of these statements about the advancements of African-Americans up to 1940 is not true?

Other voting restrictions were trivial and kept few African-Americans from voting

Which of the following programs instituted during the New Deal remains in effect today?

TVA- Tennessee Valley Authority: provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression.

He organized the Niagra Movement and demanded immediate equality for African-Americans. He was

W.E.B. Du Bois

the Rural Electrification Administration helped bring electric power to the rural areas

by lending money at low interest to farmers' cooperatives

Which of the following did not contribute to the formation of the dust bowl

crop rotation

A primary goal of the Soil Conservation Act of 1936 was the

decrease of farm surpluses

The most serious weakness of the first Agricultural Act was that it

did little to help tenant farmers

By the end of the 1930s, the New Deal had accomplished all of the following to help the farmer except

elimination of the sharecropper system

The sharecropping system developed because of the

end of slavery in the United States

FDR refused to support an anti-lynching law because

he feared the loss of Southern support in Congress

Most African-Americans supported of the New Deal because New Deal programs generally

involved more African-Americans in the government than ever before

The practice in the 1930s that most clearly violated the spirit of the 15th amendment was the use of

literacy tests

Farmers who tilled the land in exchange for a percentage of the crops were called

sharecroppers

Which practice did not help farmers in the Dust Bowl to conserve soil?

sharecropping

Which of the following categories of workers haw known least likely to join the AF of L in the 1930s?

steelworkers

Most Americans in the 1930s believed women should

support their families as wives and mothers

Which of the following discriminatory practices against African-Americans was not ended or eased during the years 1915-1939

use of poll taxes

Women during the 1930s made the greatest gains by

winning jobs in the federal government