African Americans in Great Depression

What caused the Chicago Riots of 1919?

• the tension between the white and black workers over limited jobs

• whites' refusal to allow African Americans to live in their neighborhoods

• the belief that African American migrants were uncivilized

• African Americans' refusal to be treated as second-class citizens

Identify four individuals associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Louis Armstrong

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Duke Ellington

During World War II France, Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union were known as

• the Axis.

• the Allies.

Which African country has never been colonized?

• Morocco

• Somalia

• Ethiopia

• Mali

The years 1930–1980 have been described by one historian as a period that saw the “rise and fall of the New Deal Order.” What is meant here by the phrase “New Deal Order”?

• An arrangement in which the United States government took an active role in regulating the economy and in mediating disputes between labor and management

• A plan to allow increased free trade between the United States and Europe

• An agenda pushed by congressional Republicans intent on encouraging family values and moral behavior

• A program intended by congressional Democrats to promote the growth of small businesses at the expense of major corporations

The Civilian Conservation Corps

• brought low-cost electric power to rural areas, including the building of publicly owned and operated power plants and flood-control projects

• allowed business, labor, and the public to create codes to regulate production, prices wages, hours, and collective bargaining. Businesses used it to create new monopolies by forcing smaller firms out of business

• was created in 1933 to oversee the rebuilding of America's infrastructure, such as roads, schools, and libraries

• employed about 2.5 million young, unmarried men to work on different nature related projects like planting forests, cleaning up beaches, and building bridges and dams.

He was the first martyr of the American revolution; he stood in the frontline with a group of 50 patriots and died.

• Gabriel Prosser

• Crispus Attucks

• Madison Washington

• Charles Deslondes

What type of music was popularized during the Harlem Renaissance?

• Jazz
• Hip Hop
• Country
• Rock

What was the intent of the 14th Amendment?

• guarantee rights to former slaves

• end the occupation of Union troops in the South

• outlaw slavery

• give black men the right to vote

The Public Works Administration (PWA)

• brought low-cost electric power to rural areas, including the building of publicly owned and operated power plants and flood-control projects

• allowed business, labor, and the public to create codes to regulate production, prices wages, hours, and collective bargaining. Businesses used it to create new monopolies by forcing smaller firms out of business

• was created in 1933 to oversee the rebuilding of America's infrastructure, such as roads, schools, and libraries

• employed about 2.5 million young, unmarried men to work on different nature related projects like planting forests, cleaning up beaches, and building bridges and dams.