| Term | Definition |
|---|
| TVA | although some African Americans were unionized and employed, they were still segregated or prohibited at organizations such as... |
| CCC | although some African Americans were unionized and employed, they were still segregated or prohibited at organizations such as... |
| Scottsboro Case | this involved 2 white women accusing 8 black men of raping them and a white jury sentencing 8 out of the 9 to death based on circumstantal evidence |
| North | African Americans migrate in this direction due to WWI, the Depression, and cotton prices to seek a new life |
| Ghettos | these began to develop in urban areas since the migrated African Americans couldn't afford housing |
| Politician | FDR is a "______ first" because he will not support anti-lynching laws and abolishing poll taxes, in order to have support in the South |
| Black Cabinet | 50 informal advisors to FDR |
| Mary McLeod Bethune | the Black Cabinet met at this woman's house informally and founded the first black primary schools |
| W.E.B. DuBois | this man resigns from "The Crisis," joins the Communist Party, and moves to Ghana because he doesn't believe African Americans will ever gain equality |
| Marian Anderson | a black concert singer who Eleanor Roosevelt allowed to sing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial because the Daughters of the American Revolution would not let her sing |
| Mexican Americans | these people became unemployed and migrant workers during the Depression even though they had previously been encouraged to come across the border and work |
| Native Americans | in 1924, this group was finally able to attain citizenship after losing so much land and attempted assimilation |
| John Collier | a politically prominent Indian in the FDR Administration who pushes for the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 |
| Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 | ends the Dawes Act and legislates the appreciation of Indian culture and heritage along with tribal independence |
| Alfred Landon | this Republican runs against FDR in the election of 1936 |
| FDR | this man said: "are you better off than you were 4 years ago?" |
| Democrat | African Americans for the first time switch over from Lincoln's Republican party to this party |
| Over 70 years old | FDR proposed to add an extra justice to any judge ______ ___ ______ _____ |
| John Maynard | a British economist who advises FDR to deficit spend |
| Deficit Spending | this is a liberal philosophy suggested by the British economist John Maynard |
| National Housing Act of 1937 | a plan to build low-income housing |
| Second | the ____ AAA attempts to set up government warehouses in order to store farm goods until prices rise |
| HOLC | this makes it easier for the middle class to afford homes by decreasing the down payment from 30% to 10% |
| Fair Labor Standards Acts | this replaces the unconstitutional NIRA and is the first fed law to prohibit child labor |
| Gone With the Wind | this novel by Margaret Mitchell described times during the Great Depression |
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